Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daniel Webster was sent to the Senate from Massachusetts until he died. He was loose, drank habitually to excess, did not pay his debts, but Massachusetts had a right to send him. And one could multiply such instances a hundredfold...
President, Mark Twain Society 37 Gray Avenue Webster Groves...
...orations must be oiginal, must not require more than ten minutes for delivery, and must be on any one of the following subjects: The Constitution, Washington and the Constitution, Hamilton and the Constitution, Jefferson and the Constitution, Marshall and the Constitution, Franklin and the Constitution, Madison and the Constitution, Webster and the Constitution or Lincoln and the Constitution...
...York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every 100 mulberry trees reaching the age of three years in good health. Mr. Aspinwall then rushed out on Long Island and planted 800,000 mulberry trees. Another outburst of silk fever occurred in the 1830's. Daniel Webster bought 5,000 trees for his Massachusetts farm. Farm papers told their readers that five acres of mulberry trees would support a family sumptuously. Nine state legislatures established mulberry and silk-reeling bounties. As always before, the boom languished. The industry stayed where it had started 50 centuries before, in China...
...first prize of $35 and a second of fifteen will be awarded by three judges, chosen from the University Faculty. These arbiters are: Langdon Warner '03. Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for Research in Asia. Professor K.G.T. Webster '93, of the Department of English, and L.D. Peterkin Instructor and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...