Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Susan Anthony Potter, Heleu Choate Bell, and Winthrop Sargent prize competitions for essays on Literature will close tomorrow. A Potter prize of $100 will be given for the best essay on a subject in the field of Comparative Literature, one of $75 for the best essay concerning the Middle Ages or Renaissance, and a third of $75 for an essay on the Golden Age of Spanish literature. To the winner of the Bell prize $300 is awarded for the best essay on a subject in American literature. An essay on Shakespeare will receive the $100 award from the Winthrop Sargent...
Competitions for two Bowdoin classical prizes and three Bowdoin literary prizes close tomorrow. All essays should be turned in at the office of the Secretary of the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes, 20 University Hall. The Toppar and John Osborne Sargent classical prizes also close...
...Sargent's schooling was delayed and he was still in the Black River Academy at Ludlow when Calvin Coolidge, twelve years his junior, came over from the hill-farm at Plymouth, twelve miles away. They say that the husky senior took care of the little fellow at hazing time...
...bought a tumbled-down place about 15 miles from Ludlow and uses it as a fishing club?he loves fishing. His automobile is good but old?old and paintless. There are nine clocks in the room where he works, for one of his hobbies is repairing clocks. Mr. Sargent is, in Republican state politics, quite a power. He opposed the 16th Amendment to the Federal Constitution (Income Tax), the 17th (Popular Election of Senators), the 18th (Prohibition) and the 19th (Woman Suffrage). Last year, he tried to read Senator Porter H. Dale and Representative Ernest W. Gibson...
Senator Dale of Vermont rose and in a speech denied that the President had ignored him in presenting the name of Mr. Sargent for Attorney General. Senator Norris made a speech about the "Waterpower Trust." Senator Curtis, Republican leader, began to patrol the floor, looking for an opening to move adjournment. Senator McKellar talked about Muscle Shoals. Senator Heflin denounced The New York Times for editorially attacking the President for backing down on the Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning...