Word: rutherfoord
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...that tune for the unhappy march. Next October as a prelude to the Washington bicentennial, a pageant at Yorktown will re-enact the scene that ended the Revolution. President Hoover will speak. Last month the sponsors of this local celebration, the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association of which Dr. William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin is president began to agitate for the elimination not only of "The World's Turned Upside Down" but also of the whole episode of the Cornwallis surrender. They argued that such a scene, such a tune, might injure the patriotic sensibilities of friendly British visitors. Against any such...
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