Word: sites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional speech, not on the Senate floor but in the privacy of a Public Lands Committee hearing. In pleasant contrast to the loud histrionics of her late husband & predecessor, it was a mild little plea for the passage of a bill to enlarge Chalmette National Historical Park, on the site of the Battle of New Orleans. "Had we not won that battle," said Widow Long of the great victory which Andrew Jackson won 15 days after the War of 1812 was over, "we would today have a British colony west of the Mississippi...
...North Side parochial school. Currently the plumpish, bespectacled priest lives at a Catholic hospital, celebrates mass in its chapel, depends for clothing and pocket money on the $2 or $3 his Chaldeans give in weekly collections. Not at all daunted, Father Thomay recently took an option on a site for a church, was busy last week with plans for a Byzantine structure to be called St. Ephrem's. Toward its cost, a series of lectures by Father Thomay and a Bazaar to be opened in April commemorating the silver anniversary of his ordination may help...
...Francisco in 1877. In the preceding summer the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had been driven westward out of the Black Hills by U. S. troops sent to avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president, Homestake...
...Harvard's bicentenary in 1836, the presidents of all the New England colleges were invited; but only President Humphrey of Amherst came; and it was he who opened proceedings at the famous six-hour dinner on the site of Widener...
...expedition undertook no excavations", concluded Blake, "but the members confined themselves to a survey of the site, a registration of the surface monuments, and to an investigation into the possibilities of future archacological exploration...