American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Robert Frost (March 24, 1874-January 29, 1963) was an American poet and teacher. He had been a farmer in New Hampshire; taught at Amherst College; was poet in residence at the University of Michigan; and professor of poetry at Harvard University, 1936. He won the Pulitzer prize for poetry, 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943; was named consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress; and received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. His works include: A Boy's Will, 1913; North of Boston, 1914; Mountain Interval, 1916; West-Running Brook, 1928; A Way Out, 1929; From Snow to Snow, 1936; A Witness Tree,...

John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (January 29, 1874-May 11, 1960) was the son of industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. He was an assistant to his father in managing the Rockefeller enterprises, 1897; and upon his father's retirement, assumed the general superintendency, 1911. He later concerned himself mainly with the Rockefeller philanthropies, being the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Foundation; a director of the General Education Board, and president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He build Rockefeller Center in mid-Manhattan, New York City, 1935; and donated the land bordering the East River between 41st and 47th to...

Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873-October 4, 1944) was the four-term Governor of New York, 1919-21, 1923-29; and the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1928. He had also served as an Assemblyman in the New York State Legislature, 1903; Sheriff of New York City, 1915-17; and leader of the American Liberty League, 1939-44. Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic, came under attack during his campaign for the Presidency. He responded in May of 1927: <I am unable to understand how anything I was taught to believe as a Catholic could possibly be in conflict with what is good citizenship. The essence of my...

George Bennard (1873-1958) wrote the hymn The Old Rugged Cross, 1913, which included: <I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.> 1873GB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1873GB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). George Bennard, 1913, in the hymn he composed titled, The Old Rugged Cross. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 738.