Word: centralia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mourning. Organize!" Frank Little, "half Indian, half white and all I.W.W.," was lynched by masked men in Butte, Montana, but not before he had said: "Better to go out in a blaze of glory than to give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched him from jail and hanged his bullet-riddled body from a bridge...
...Yankees. There is no end to anecdotes about Romy. When a fire swept through a Catholic hospital in Centralia, Ill., killing a number of patients, he is said to have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness...
Among the many domestic stories he covered, old-TIMErs best remember his interview with a wayfarer on Chicago's Skid Row (July 22, 1946), his report on the Centralia mine disaster (April 7, 1947), and the two Alger Hiss trials...
...hospitals, Dr. Francis J. Gerty, director of the department of mental health, plans to spend $50 million on eight "hospital clinics." They will be so distributed that no one in the state will have more than a two-hour drive to reach one: two in Chicago, one each in Centralia, Peoria, Springfield, Harrisburg, Rockford and Decatur-Champaign...
...England, his wife Helen and their son and daughter-in-law farm a 520-acre place near Centralia, Mo. (see third color page), and rent another 180 acres near by. Son Frank, 24, and his wife Jane live in a modern pink-and-gray clapboard house built from architect's plans in a farm magazine. The elder Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock...