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unusual facts about Walter J. Cummings



Adrienne Monnier

Monnier’s review was international in its scope and published lists of American works in translation as well as devoting an issue (March 1926) to American writers including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and E. E. Cummings.

America First Committee

Other celebrities supporting America First were novelist Sinclair Lewis, poet E. E. Cummings, Washington socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, film producer Walt Disney, and actress Lillian Gish.

Angry Candy

The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by E. E. Cummings, "...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy."

Anthony McNeill

McNeill was known for his experimental style, influenced by contemporary jazz as well as American poets like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and E. E. Cummings.

CSC Maiden Saginaw

In 1924 Walter J. Carr found investors Walter Savage, Edward Savage and John Coryell willing to put money into a new enclosed cabin aircraft.

Cummings Research Park

In 1961, Milton K. Cummings, then president of Brown Engineering Company, and Joseph C. Moquin, his later successor, selected a tract of undeveloped land on the western edge of Huntsville for building a new headquarters.

Damon Cummings

Damon M. Cummings (1910-1942), a United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient

Dan Cragg

Generals in Muddy Boots: A Concise Encyclopedia of Combat Commanders, Berkley Publishing (New York City), 1996 (with Walter J. Boyne).

Edward Swann

Swann was elected as a Democrat to the 57th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Amos J. Cummings and served from December 1, 1902, to March 3, 1903.

Fokker Eindecker fighters

Boyne, Walter J. The Smithsonian Book of Flight for Young People.

Fred N. Cummings

Cummings was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1941).

Gates of Prayer

Additional readings were included from philosophers Martin Buber and Alfred North Whitehead; poets E. E. Cummings, John Masefield and Nelly Sachs; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and from Elie Wiesel.

Glenbow Museum

The collection contains an outstanding selection of landscape painting, a renowned Canadian prints collection including works from Walter J. Phillips and modernist printmaker Sybil Andrews, First Nations and Inuit Art, American illustration, and wildlife Art.

Harry Kemp

Kemp knew many of the bohemian and progressive literary and cultural figures of his generation, including Elbert Hubbard, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Bernarr MacFadden, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and many others.

Iconicity

One poet well known for his visual poems, and therefore visual iconicity, is E. E. Cummings.

James H. Cummings

James Harvey "Mister Jim" Cummings (1890–1979) was a Tennessee farmer, attorney, and political figure.

Joseph Allworthy

They included Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly (industrialist), Banker Walter J. Cummings, Boeing Chairman, William E. Boeing, the brewers Pabst brothers, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago Laird Bell and many others associated with several Universities across the United States.

La Ferté-Macé

Among others, the American poet E. E. Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, then volunteers in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, were held there between September 21, 1917 and December 19 of the same year, on charges of "espionage" which in fact consisted of having expressed anti war opinions.

M. Bernard Loates

Bernard continued publishing programs with Glen Loates, A.J. Casson, Toni Onley, and Walter J. Phillips amongst others.

Malcolm Cowley

As one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris, France and congregated in Montparnasse, Cowley returned to live in France for three years, where he worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby and others.

Milton K. Cummings

Although Duckett left AMC in the mid-1960s for a leading position with the Central Intelligence Agency, their relationship continued until Cummings’ death.

Russell B. Cummings

Cummings joined the Houston Jaycees, or United States Junior Chamber and in 1960 was elected president of the chapter.

Salmon Tower Building

The firm of Walter J. Salmon, Sr. which erected the edifice, was known as 11 West 42nd Street, Inc.

Somewhere I Have Never Traveled

In almost perfect English, a soliloquy by Ah-hsian of the passionate love sonnet Somewhere I have Never Traveled by E. E. Cummings portends a sad ending.

Steve Roggenbuck

Roggenbuck has said that his influences include the Flarf poets, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk.

The Joan Baez Lovesong Album

This one focused on the various "love songs" Baez had recorded during her Vanguard years, including traditional and contemporary work, as well as an arrangement of E. E. Cummings' "All in Green My Love Went Riding" by Peter Schickele.

The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

The Wild Blue - The Novel of the U.S. Air Force, by historian Walter J. Boyne and Steven L. Thompson, was published in 1986.

Thomas L. Cummings, Sr.

His son, Thomas L. Cummings, Jr., was a businessman and founder of Cummings Signs, a manufacturer of corporate brand signs for the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, KFC, Captain D's, the Chevron Corporation, Conoco, Holiday Inn and Bank of America.

United States aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union

Boyne, Walter J. "The Long Reach Of The Stratojet." Air Force Magazine Vol.

Walter Carr

Walter J. Carr (1896–1970), American pilot and aircraft promoter

Walter J. D. Annand

Walter John Dinnie Annand was born 21 August 1920 in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Annand was awarded a DSc in 1972 in which year, sponsored by the British Council, he was engaged as Visiting Professor in Engineering at the Middle East Technical University, at Ankara, Turkey.

Following the end of the war Annand took up a post with Rolls-Royce in 1947 becoming, before his thirtieth birthday, head of the aerodynamics section, involved with military research.

Walter J. Gex III

On January 29, 1986, Gex was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi created by 98 Stat.

Walter J. Johnson

He had good friendships and business relationships with the Lenape and Mohawk people who inhabited the area at the time.

Walter J. Kohler, Jr.

A short time later, Terry Kohler, Walter's son, assumed the reins of the highly expanded and profitable corporation.

Walter J. Kohler, Sr.

They had four sons: John Michael Kohler III (1902–68), Walter Jodok, Jr. (1904–76), Carl James (1905–60), and Robert Eugene (1908–90).

One of those GOP governors was Walter Kohler's son, Walter J. Kohler, Jr..

Walter J. Mathews

The family moved from Wisconsin in 1866, and Walter and his brothers trained in the office of their father.

Walter J. Salmon, Sr.

Of importance in the business world, Meinhard v. Salmon, 164 N.E. 545 (N.Y. 1928), is a widely cited case in which the New York Court of Appeals held that partners in a business owe fiduciary duties to one another where a business opportunities arises during the course of the partnership.

The NewYork City Landmarks Preservation Commission also stated that Walter Salmon's crowning achievement was the construction of 500 Fifth Avenue, now a New York City Designated Landmark.

(1871 - December 25, 1953) was a New York City real estate investor and developer who, according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, was "responsible for rebuilding the north side of West 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the first decades of the 20th century".

Walter J. Turner

Born in South Melbourne, the son of a church musician – organist at St Paul's Cathedral – and a warehouseman, Walter James Turner, and a woman of long golden hair, Alice May (née Watson), he was educated at Carlton State School, Scotch College and the Working Men's College.

Walter Kohler

Walter J. Kohler, Sr. (1875–1940), Governor of Wisconsin (1929–1931) and President of the Kohler Company


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