Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Waldemar Wysocki lands great slamming blows, after the manner of Brad Simmons, he doesn't follow them up, and was outclassed in the 165-pound division by Andrew Stuart. Dwight Ellis, 145 pounds, overcame his short reach to fight to a draw with Raymond Carter...
When the epidemic was over, grateful survivors addressed to President Andrew Johnson a fervent petition for Dr. Mudd's release. It never reached the White House. A new commanding officer sent the physician back to his dungeon, chains and labor. There he stayed until the spring of 1869 when President Johnson finally released him. Health broken and still suspect among his neighbors, Dr. Mudd tried for 14 years without success to win back his old life. In 1883, aged 50, he went out on a stormy night to attend a patient, caught pneumonia, quickly died...
...when Britons thirsted to hang the Kaiser, obliging Mr. David Lloyd George won a general election and three more years as Prime Minister by promising to do so.* Ever since 1922, when the fuzzy-haired Welsh Liberal was finally ousted by Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, he has been looking for another vote-getter as good as "Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor...
James Howard Bridge arrived in the U. S. in 1884, with good references. He had been private secretary to the late great Herbert Spencer. He got himself a job as "literary assistant" to Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie passed his "literary assistant" on to his onetime business partner, Henry Clay Frick, and James Howard Bridge acted as a Frick secretary for two years. In 1914 he was put in charge of the Frick pictures, exactly in what capacity being one of the turning points of last week's trial. In November 1928, nine years after Mr. Frick's death...
...famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it across his heart,'' carried it to Garcia...