Word: randolph
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Roman Gods & Abe Lincoln. Originally, the city fathers had no grand design in mind.One of their first purchases was made in the early 1800s to decorate the city waterworks, and it consisted of wooden figures by William Rush, the famous carver of ships' figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President...
...sale of the Times continues the cutback of the Hearst chain since control of the empire passed to Hearst Corporation President Richard Berlin after the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. More interested in profits than press power, Berlin got rid of the Chicago American and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. Says one Hearst executive: "For years our strong papers-Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, Los Angeles-have been drained by losing operations. In the last two years we have decided on concentrating our resources in those...
Senator Jennings Randolph, a Democrat, defeated Governor C. H. Underwood by more than 100,000 votes; Kennedy took advantage of economic unrest and easily won this predominantly Protestant Industrial state...
...chemical laboratory met with widespread relief and gratitude. With President's Lowell's cherished House system still 12 years in the future, Cabot spent his first year at the College living in Stan dish Hall, now part of Winthrop House, overlooking the river, and his last two in Randolph, now incorporated into Adams House on Mt. Vernon...
...roommates--at one time numbering 11--possessed a wide range of personalities and backgrounds. Although most of Lodge's friends were Bostonians like himself or New Yorkers, the residents of the suite in Randolph included a couple of Midwesterners and a Cuban named Thorvald Sanchez, whose father managed a string of dairy farms. John Mason Brown and Corliss Lamont provided a literary aura. James M. Newell, Jr., Lodge's immediate roommate, can recall heated arguments between Cabot, who then admired his grandfather's stand against the League of Nations, and the vehemently liberal Lament, who once urged the Union...