Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise of a $250,000 contribution to the G. O. P. campaign chest failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over his head, he brandished his stamp. Upon it was pictured smoking Momotombo. Senator Hanna sonorously asked his colleagues if they would be so foolish as to build a canal in the shadow of this volcano...
...Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting son Daniel, later used as a houseboat by Spencer Borden, only recently refitted for sea service...
...Columbus. Ind., Herschel Olmstead, 17, signaled a passing automobile for a ride. Sheriff Alonzo Fitch, on his way to arrest Herschel Olmstead for stealing a wristwatch, told him to climb in, took him to jail...
...Morley Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Re-search Council of Great Britain; Professor Archibald Vivian Hill of the Royal Society: Dr. James Ramsay Hunt, Columbia's professor of neurology; President William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association: Dr. Alfred Stengel, Pennsylvania's professor of medicine: Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, Leland Stanford's director of food research; Johns Hopkins' William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. medicine...
...girl's father raised a shotgun. Turmoil followed and, despite the urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from an oak tree-16th lynching in the U. S. this year, Georgia's second in the fortnight. After shooting at the suspended body, the mob cut it down, tied it to the truck, dragged it to and around the Thomasville square...