Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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September 25. Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary, New York City...
Indicted last week with Governor Ed Jackson for his alleged chicanery, were Robert I. Marsh, his one-time law partner, and George V. Coffin, Republican boss of Marion County. David C. Stephenson is already in jail for life, as a murderer...
Governor Jackson's friends, the Messrs. Marsh and Coffin, offered no additional protests of innocence. Mayor Duvall had nothing...
...prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring...
...potent figure of contemporary Egypt. Funeral. Under a blistering Af- rican sun, the Zaghlul funeral procession wended its way through the streets of Cairo to the Imam-Yhafel Mosque. At its head marched mournful bands, laborites with lazily wagging flags and banners. Next came political groups, army units, the coffin covered with a silk Egyptian flag on a gun carriage. Some 4,000 official mourners, a body of Freemasons and mounted police constituted the rear...