Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick the winner. Last year Sterne gave first place to a design of two reposeful...
...dead, were 40 wounded by bullets, some 60 beaten. Seven of the ten dead had been shot in the back. Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little, Mexican-born social worker at Chicago's Hull House, told how she had been clubbed, put in a patrol wagon with 16 other wounded, none of whom had had first-aid treatment...
...face." Blinded in one eye, he ran to a ditch. A tear-gas bomb exploded at his right, blinding him in the other eye. Stumbling on, he was picked up by some fleeing demonstrators in a car, then dragged out by police, who threw him in a patrol wagon...
...take children only from the Family Service Welfare agencies of New York City. On arrival at camp, the child finds a minimum of regimentation. He joins a group of seven and takes up residence in a structure designed to stimulate his imagination and responsibility. It may be a covered wagon or an Indian tepee, a stone village or a treehouse. Each group, under a counselor, is virtually free to make its own rules, divide its duties and camp work, find its especial talents, fun, and paths of exploration...
Executive Director of all Life Camps since 1925 is Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, a 42-year-old Kansan. The covered wagon idea is his, as well as the broad educational aims of the camps. He started life as a farm boy, went to Kansas State Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half...