Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italian Ambassador Signer Mobile Giacomo de Martino, short, fussy, quick and nervous of movement. His chief recreation is confined to long motor rides out of Washington. Wines at the Italian Embassy have long been famed...
...shop, no office door was opened one morning last week in Gastonia, N. C. Grim-faced, sullen men lounged about silent streets. They were waiting for the funeral of Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt, murdered in a gun fight with textile strikers...
Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...
...Chief Aderholt died the next day. Harrison and 58 others were arrested, some charged with murder. Thus ended the twelfth week of one of the first strikes in the "New" South...
...Ripon the chief object of political veneration was the one-room schoolhouse in which Bovay held his meeting. The building was later occupied by George W. Peck, author of Peck's Bad Boy and one-time Governor of Wisconsin...