Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born: on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1880. Start in life: prosecutor. Career: Son of a well-to-do farmer who moved into Canton to take a local Treasury job when William McKinley became President, he received a public school education, attended Ohio State University, studied law at Western Reserve University. With a natural flair for politics he got a job as assistant prosecutor of Stark County but gave it up after three years to practice privately. Ambitious, he ran for the House of Representatives when 32, was beaten; got himself elected two years later, re-elected...
...Congress: He lives at the expensive but not very fashionable Carlton Hotel on 16th St., often walks the two miles to the Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died...
Sued for Divorce. Burleigh A. Grimes, for 15 years a big league baseball pitcher, crack spitballer of the St. Louis Cardinals (National League champions); by Mrs. Florence Ruth Grimes; at Canton, Ohio. Charge: he was cruel, gossiped, wrote to other women. Last December Grimes unsuccessfully sued Mrs. Grimes for divorce. He alleged she gossiped, made him unpopular with the team...
Albert Bates Lord '34, Boston Latin School; Charles Montague Johnson '34, Needham High School; Williard Copt Jones '34, Roxbury Latin; and Francis Joseph Mosley '34, Canton High School, China...
Near Norwich, N. Y., the Goodyear VIII, with the veteran Ward Tunte Van Orman and Alan MacCracken, was hurled down 8,000 ft. by a vertical current. The basket hit the earth, bounced up again, sailed on. Near Canton, Mass., the pilots deliberately landed, they said, to avoid being blown to sea. With a distance mark of 550 mi. they were (unofficially) winners of the fifth consecutive U. S. victory...