Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race for governorship nominations. Many were the candidates. On the Republican side, Acting Governor Merriam, Lawyer Raymond LeRoy Haight and former Governor Clement Calhoun Young were among those asking voters to listen to their eloquence. On the Democratic side George Creel, Wartime Chief of Propaganda, backed by William Gibbs McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
...liked was Raymond Hood. . . . Even if you look down the list through the ages Raymond Hood will stand out among the architects of all time as one who had the fortune and the genius to conduct radical experimentation with mass and color. Many have had this privilege on canvas or with clay, but it is rare for a man to be allowed to play around with steel and glass and stone in this fashion...
Thus last week wrote Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking...
...speech of Huey Long is "a splendid example of the lower middle classes of the Lower Mississippi Valley." Raymond Moley speaks purest Ohioan. Franklin Roosevelt is "a fine example of an educated American," using few localisms and little of the vestigial British accent typical of his class...
...such potent concerns as Charles G. Blake Co. of Chicago who built the $100,000 Gary mausoleum, and Presbrey-Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent Co. of Mt. Airy, N. C., Georgia Marble Co. of Tate, Jones Bros...