Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson of Vermont and Duffy of Wisconsin, who dared not sail until after the Court Bill's solemn political interment in Washington (TIME, Aug. 2). They were to arrive in time to dedicate other" tasteful monuments at Flanders Field, Bellicourt, Cantigny, Gibraltar, Château-Thierry...
...cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull will be featured. Burlington's Green Mountain Playhouse started doing business last week...
...extradition, was taken to Greenfield. His alibi was simple: he said he had spent all the night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea of this thing, but the less said about it the better...
...Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democrat Leo V. Tumelty of Philadelphia introduced a resolution to "remove or rip the statue of Boies Penrose from the lawn of the Capitol and offer it to either Maine or Vermont." The memorial to Pennsylvania's late Republican Boss, declared he, "appears to be sneering...
...publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more serious verse. Death and General Putnam-and 101 Other Poems (1935), his literary high, was boosted by many readers for a Pulitzer Prize. He is an expert on New York history, rich enough to winter in Florida, summer in Vermont...