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After Magistrate Vitale and friends had feasted, sung and speechified, there were footfalls on the stairs. Seven men entered the room and held up the crowd. One of the gunmen had a handkerchief over his face and carried two revolvers; the others worked with faces bare and bland. They acquired some $5,000 worth of cash and jewelry and several firearms. They met no resistance at all from Police Detective Arthur C. Johnson, an imposing fellow who had held that position for 17 years and thrice been recommended for bravery. His gun was one of those taken away...
...take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself "unseated." But for three hours Mr. Grundy had to wait while Senators violently abused him and Governor Fisher. With hands folded in his lap and a bland smile on his round face, he listened placidly to a torrential flow of senatorial invective. He heard himself called a "corrupt lobbyist," his appointment an "insult to decency," his Governor...
William Abbott, J. Q. Adams, R. C. Aldrich, J. D. Allen, Jr., Stuyvesant Barry, M. S. Beeler, E. I., Belisle, A. R. Belliveau, J. A. Blanchard, 2nd, J. R. Bland, T. H. Brackett, W. L. Breese, D. L. Charlton, David Cheever, Jr., J. L. Clarke, David Cobb, B. D. Crauage, P. S. Dalton, Jr., C. D. Dillon, S. P. Duggan...
...post-season honor, two of these men, Bland and Stollmeyer, have been named on the 1929 "All Collegiate" soccer team, as selected by Coach Nies of Princeton. Coach McPete of Haverford has also chosen a team. Both these men, who annually pick all-American soccer squads, agree that three Penn State players should be included on the 1929 team, but otherwise their selections differ widely. Nies has also selected two Yale men for his first team...
...assembled and the Senate is ready to proceed to business." The House membership was instantly convulsed with merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right. It was a fine professional joke...