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There is little to say of Colonel Coolidge, save that he was a man of affairs in a tiny Vermont village. He was born on March 31, 1845, schooled in the neighborhood at the same schools his son later attended. He began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster...
...must be painful to a man to become a myth before he is dead. That great mythmaker, the public, is no respecter of persons, and least of all has it respected the person of Andrew J. Volstead, a little man of Scandinavian descent who was born in Minnesota in 1861. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who built the log cabin on the farm where Andrew was born. His mother was the daughter of a market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared...
...other prisoners introduced alibis tending to prove that they could have taken no part in either the kidnaping or the murder. Loudly they pleaded "Not guilty!" Resolutely they maintained then-entire innocence. Somewhat bored, the smiling Signoras concentrated their attention upon chief prisoner Dumini, young, clean shaven, born in St. Louis...
...born at Bergen, Norway, in 1892; educated there and in London and Berlin ; in Russian hospital service 1917-19, prisoner of war. In 1923-24 he was interne in infectious diseases at Sydenham Hospital. Baltimore, and later went on the staff of Johns Hopkins. In 1925 he went to Rochester University...
...back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...