Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast, four-story-high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved it into place...
BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE-William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin-Foreign Policy Association (35?). Presenting in 46 pages the cold-chill, cold-cash headline facts on the world armaments race-with special advice...
...hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers before his mouth. The Chief Justice fingers his snowy mustache. Conservative Justice McReynolds stares meditatively at the fine ceiling of the court room (not shown in the picture). Conservative Justice Sutherland lounges at one side of his chair. Liberal Justice Stone has his hand partly before his face. Liberal Justice Cardozo leans wearily upon one elbow...
...Stone. Good, thorough teacher, although possibly dull...
...future Congressman was born (1895) in San Antonio, a stone's throw from the Alamo, the eleventh and last of his family. After a year at V. M. I. he finished college at the University of Texas, took three years of law in one and was admitted to the bar at 20. At 24 he was president of the San Antonio Bar Association. His War record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics...