Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First U. S. eisteddfod was in Carbondale, Pa., in 1850. Now they are held in many U. S. towns. The largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...
...peak in the 20's, when both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court...
...Alabama still wants to play in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech outplayed the Crimson Tide for three quarters, then four minutes before the game ended, Alabama's Tut Warren caught a forward pass just over the goal line. Score: Alabama 7, Georgia Tech...
...rights of Capital. They are in the order of their appointment: James Clark McReynolds (1914), Woodrow Wilson's onetime Attorney-General, a peppery oldster of 75 who mortally fears tobacco smoke; George Sutherland (1922), a onetime (1905-17) Utah Senator, who was one of the four Justices Warren Harding appointed in two years; and Pierce Butler (1922), the bench's only Catholic, a onetime railroad corporation lawyer...
...Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering old man's voice, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis was both mature and financially secure enough to manifest the social consciousness that has since been the dominant theme of his thoughts and deeds...