Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast guard established a strict blockade along the Atlantic coast to break up the rum row that stretched from New London, Conn., to the New Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...
...Greenwich, Conn. Golf...
humbling game, said the players of Greenwich, Conn., when Jess Sweetser, onetime (1922) National Amateur Champion, qualified for the annual invitation tournament at the Greenwich Country Club, the lowest by so wide a cut that he seemed a certain winner. All that stood in his way was a blond stripling named Lawrence Lloyd, a Greenwich youth who had a putter. On every green, that putter flashed. Down went straight 15 footers, down went curly 10 footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd...
Died. Rollin S. Woodruff, 71, one-time (1907-9) Governor of Connecticut;* in Guilford, Conn., of heart disease...
...Phineas C. Lounsbury, Governor of Connecticut 1887-89, died at Ridgefield, Conn., the week previous...