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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to being the first Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Morton was a pioneer in the development of Nebraska City, having founded a packing industry in that city, which is still in operation. He was also father of Arbor Day and induced the Nebraska Legislation to establish that as a state holiday and most of the other states have adopted it as a state holiday. Mr. J. Sterling Morton established Arbor Lodge at Nebraska City, and his son, Joy Morton, head of the Morton Salt Company, recently deeded Arbor Lodge to the State of Nebraska as a state park and memorial...
...Exeter, Dartmouth Freshmen, and Yale Freshmen. In addition several informal contests with neighboring schools will probably be arranged. The prospects for the 1932 team are fairly abed, with several preparatory school stars reporting, among them the most conspicuous being C. S. Eaton '32, who last summer won the Massachusetts State Junior Championship
Goodhue. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, famed U.S. architect and black-and-white draughtsman, died in 1924. He was 55, in the noon of his genius. His most striking work is the massive Nebraska State Capitol, with its tall domed tower and carved prairie legends. His most startling deed was the placing of a dollar sign in stone above the bridal door of fashionable St. Thomas's Church in Manhattan. Last week, in Manhattan's Chapel of the Intercession, which he also designed, Architect Goodhue's memorial tomb was dedicated. Art Critic Royal Cortissoz of Manhattan and Architect Milton...
...last year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...define what Sam Dodsworth was, at fifty, it is easier to state what he was not. He was none of the things which most Europeans and many Americans expect in a leader of American industry. He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon. He rarely shouted, never slapped people on the back, and he had attended only six baseball games since 1900. He knew, and thoroughly, the Babbitts and baseball fans, but only in business...