Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Spargo, famous Socialist ... in Vermont is not John A. Spargo, superintendent of schools in Nutley, N. J. (TIME, Nov. 18). In fact I doubt if my old school master is related to his better known namesake...
...Elected Bishop of Vermont's 6,000 Episcopal communicants was Rev. Dr. Vedder Van Dyck, vice Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton who was offered the post (TIME, Aug. 12) but declined. Chunky, pink-faced Dr. Van Dyck, 46, has been rector of St. Paul's in Burlington since...
Last September Philadelphia Republicans nominated S. (for Samuel) Davis Wilson, a jack-of-all-political-trades, for mayor (TIME, Sept. 30). Once an assistant to the Attorney General of Vermont, once an assistant to the U. S. Senate's chaplain, once an assistant to Princeton's Bill Roper in organizing the Woodrow Wilson Independent League in Philadelphia, Davis Wilson assisted shy WillB Hadley two years ago to become Philadelphia's treasurer on a Democratic-Fusion ticket. At the same time Davis...
Duane c. barnes, of Richford, Vermont, instructor in French...
...Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently intelligent to win the respect of such later students as Havelock Ellis and Bernard Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly...