Word: steven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Steven McGroarty, onetime newshawk, is poet laureate of California by act of the Legislature. Three months ago Californians gave him another distinction when they elected him to Congress. Last week he won for himself still another distinction when he beat President Roosevelt by 24 hours in getting a "social security" measure to Congress. Said Laureate-Congressman McGroarty of his bill...
...great is the rivalry among Congressmen for the privilege of introducing such a measure, says Dr. Townsend, that a movement is under way to have it proposed jointly by all favoring Congressmen. Undismayed by the House's new gag rule (see p. 13), California's Representative John Steven McGroarty, who is also his State's "Poet Laureate," last week roared: "We don't give a hoot how many names it takes [to get the bill out of committee]. We'll get the signatures because the members of Congress want to come back to Congress...
...Bandusiae" (Randall Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...
...criticism of it. I did not mean to imply, nor do I know, that there never is honest, "sober and constructive" criticism in the magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George Steven's recent "Syllabus of Syllables" (a parody comment on Miss Gertrude Stein's opera. "Four Saints in Three Acts.") Such items are "hogwash and balderdash," judged as criticism...
...pageant will portray the early history of the First Church of Cambridge. Professor Hart will play the role of Steven Hart, and early citizen. Professor Mather will take the part of President Kirkland of Harvard, and Professor Moore will portray President Langdon...