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Joseph Pennell N.A. Wayman Adams Phillips Academy Museum (Andover...
Frankie was a Boston Italian, second generation, so he could talk like a Heming-wayman and get away with it: his mother did not speak English so good. Frankie had left a fair job in a factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
Although Dr. Thomas T. Shields, Trustee-President of (Baptist) Des Moines University won, last fortnight, his re-election and whelming trustee-support in his fight against dismissed University President Harry C. null one thing worried him. When he expelled President Wayman because he seemed to be a modernist, Des Moines students had thrown eggs, rocks. (TIME, May 20.) The police had to interfere to shield Dr. Shields and the University's loyal-to-Shields Secretary, Miss Edith Rebman. Now Dr. Shields had to return to Des Moines from a Baptist Bible Union convention in Buffalo and he was worried...
...Shields's chins quivered with emotion when he addressed the delegates. The majority cheered him, inferentially hissing his enemy, Dr. Harry Wayman, expelled President of Des Moines University, whose face is infinitely sad and who last week said: "If it were possible to banish Dr. Shields to some island under the sea. a great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student...
President Wayman did not attend the convention. But Dean Earl C. Galloway of the College of Pharmacy was there as his defender. He heard Dr. Shields charge that Dr. Wayman mismanaged the University, that he claimed academic degrees which were not rightly his. But when he tried to answer the charges, Dr. Shields would not yield the floor. Finally the Dean was allowed to speak, and then he found that most of the delegates would not listen to him. He therefore left the convention and started another at the Hotel Tourraine...