Word: wirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked on the New York Life building, served as technical adviser to PWA. As eccentric, he omitted heating facilities from the second floor of his Bronxville, N.Y. home because he believes people should sleep in cold rooms. As economist, he attended the famous dinner at which Dr. William A. Wirt later said he had heard that Roosevelt was a U.S. Kerensky and that a flock of Reds were waiting to take over the Government; then, with a series of 25? and 50? pamphlets (Brass Tacks, Uncommon Sense, Waste), of which he has sold over 1,000,000 copies, he proved...
Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...
...Wirt Ross, a shrewd fight manager, saw possibilities in Henry Jackson, offered Promoter Cox $250 for the skinny-shanked featherweight's contract. The first thing Wirt Ross did was to change Henry Jackson's name to Henry Armstrong. The name worked like a charm. Henry Armstrong became a two-fisted swinger who went into the ring punching and never stopped until he knocked out his exhausted opponent...
...SOLDIERS-Edited by Wirt Armistead Gate-University of North Carolina Press ($2.50). The diaries of 26-year-old Robert Campbell of the Union Army and 33-year-old Confederate Captain Thomas Keys, who fought on opposite sides around Atlanta. Campbell's diary is brief, unilluminating, but Keys, who had been a newspaper editor, wrote vividly of the battles of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, of a journey through Union country to visit his wife & children at Helena...
Died. Dr. William Albert Wirt, 64, educator; of a heart attack; in Gary, Ind. In 1934 he charged that the Brain Trust was plotting revolution and that Franklin Roosevelt was a U. S. Kerensky, which made far more news than his widely adopted Gary School Plan (alternating work, study, play...