Word: centralia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David grew up in Centralia he began more and more to understand the broad tolerance, the bitter and sympathetic scepticism that, had they been alloyed with ambition, would have made his brother Henry great as well as splendid. David, possessing that ambition, strengthened it upon his brother's wisdom. He looked at the World War with the wise critical eyes of early adolescence; he watched the branches of his family twist and struggle along trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge...
Marriage annulled. The marriage of Count Jacques de Lesdain, Attaché of the French Consulate at Shanghai, to Miss Carmen Beley (Centralia, Ill.); at Paris. Her marriage, at 19, at Chabanor, Mongolia, in the presence of two Belgian missionaries, was held invalid...
...Loring '26 of Newtonville and E. B. Branns '25 of Iron Mountain, Mich., were elected to the stage department, and A. H. Starke '25 of Centralia, Ill., was chosen for the properties...
...What happened in the Vanzetti trial is no new story--it is a repetition of practices in the Mooney trial, the Centralia trial, and the prosecution of Sidney Flowers in Los Angeles. Mooney and Billings went to prison on wholly fabricated evidence; the judges in the Centralia case made rulings without a show of regard for the truth; and stool-pigeons were used in the Flowers case; one of them was lately planted in a cell next to Sacco in an effort to get him to commit himself in conversation...