Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
Night after night in the Chi Psi fraternity house at Middlebury College, Vermont, a lank, black-haired youth used to sit at the piano, pounding out the lusty lament about the brave engineer's "farewell trip to the Promised Land." Since the piano-thumper's name was Jones, he was nicknamed "Casey." His first initials, C. S. for Charles Sherman, perpetuated the nickname from those days, 20 years ago, until he became an aviator. Then it stuck as the perfect name for a hard-bitten pilot. It helped make him a glamorous figure in the swashbuckling period...
...Senior class, three Juniors, and a like number from the class of 1932, have applied for Rhodes scholarships this year. Five of these men are applicants in the Massachusetts district, five in New York, two in Pennsylvania, and one each in Arizona, Idaho, California, Minnesota, Connecticut, Ohio, and Vermont...
...dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building, had placed a lead box containing ceramic photographs of the present court and of Chief Justice Taft, a Congressional Directory...
Architect of the Supreme Court's new home is Cass Gilbert whose design is along classic Corinthian lines, with simple masses carefully proportioned. Builder is George A. Fuller Co. The building's overall measurements are 385 ft. by 304 ft. With the exterior finished in Vermont marble, Alabama marble will be used on the interior, Georgia marble will be used in the four courtyards. At Architect Gilbert's insistence and to the dismay of penny-pinching Congressmen, the Court chamber itself will be finished in Italian and Spanish marbles-a fact so far discreetly soft-pedaled...