Word: 139th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little old harmless gathering-until the professor gave the rebel yell. A few dozen United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Children of the Confederacy and Mississippi's Representative John Rankin had assembled in the National Capitol's high-domed Statuary Hall to commemorate the 139th birthday of the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed Dr. Charles...
...House, donned his full-bottomed wig and the Speaker's traditional large black gown. Then the Sergeant at Arms, majestically carrying the gold mace of royal authority over his shoulder, marched Brown to the Chair of the House. Brown sat down: he was Britain's 139th Speaker of the Commons...