Word: witts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HIAWATTA: Witt No Odder Poems...
...Cleveland councilmen beamed. They had learned (unofficially through the Cleveland Press) that the Equitable Trust Co. of Manhattan with the concurrence of the Rockefellers might ask them for a franchise to build a $40,000,000 subway which eventually will go to the municipality free of cost. One Peter Witt, obstructionist, thinks the private enterprise "perfectly silly," insists the city should build the urgently needed tubes itself, after a plan which he first suggested three years ago but which has remained ignored...
...while waiting for Congress to demobilize the Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...
Smith Halls will again be under the charge of J. W. D. Seymour '17, Secretary to the University for Information, who has been interested during and after college in University dramatics. He started on the swimming team while in college. Seymour is a graduate of the De Witt Clinton High School of New York...
Bicycles. Before the 21st Annual Convention of the Cycle Trades of America, at Manhattan, rose De Witt Page, a vice president of the General Motors Corporation, to tell the assembled sellers of man power two-wheelers how the four-wheeled motor is actually pushing their sales. "Many of my friends," said Mr. Page, unsmiling, "now find parking conditions so intolerable that they ride on bicycles to their offices. . . The automobile has made suburban life possible. In the suburbs children can and do ride bicycles in safety. In nearly all of the fashionable girls' colleges and preparatory schools there...