Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House. Then the official party adjourned for luncheon to the Governor-General's summer home in the Citadel. Afterwards there were private conferences on public problems common to the two countries, a sightseeing tour through showers, a formal tea and a departure by train via Montreal for Vermont...
...nine o'clock next morning President Roosevelt detrained at Waterbury, Vt., to be received by Vermont's Governor Charles M. Smith, Senators Varren R. Austin and Ernest W. Gibson, Republicans all. To such political foreigners the President did not find it necessary to show his diplomatic side. He drove to Little River Dam near Waterbury, to Wrightsville Dam on the Winooski near Montpelier, thence through one of last spring's Connecticut River flood regions to Hanover, N. H., where he was met by Republican Governor H. Styles Bridges. At Little River Dam, where 1,300 CCC boys...
...sister Yale's new President, ''comes like a breeze from somewhere outside New England." This was only technically true. For although James Rowland Angell matured on the campus of Chicago and was raised on the campus of Michigan, he was born on the campus of Vermont when his father, having edited the Providence, R. I. Journal during the Civil War and taught a spell at Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders...
GREEN MOUNTAINS TO SIERRAS-Zephine Humphrey-Dutton ($2.50). This record of the transcontinental motor tour of a Vermont painter and his wife makes pleasant reading, except for an occasional lapse into coyness. The Humphreys traveled for the winter on the price of their usual coal supply...
...rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...