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...good a party man to let personal pique last the whole campaign. He tore into Labor "with all its paraphernalia of restrictions and regulations . . .," lauded Sir Anthony as "a statesman long versed in parliamentary and cabinet government," and urged Britons to give him "generous and effective support." And in Essex he answered the Labor charge in his own way: "I gave up my office and responsibility because I thought it was my duty. I did not feel that at my age I should incur new and indefinite responsibilities...
Although the hall had only sixteen rooms, it somehow managed to house two hundred and forty men during the Revolution when a Provincial Congress commandeered Harvard dormitories. Among the Revolutionaries were Samuel and Ebenezer. Hall, who used the building as the headquarters of the "New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette." This short-lived publication, according to a contemporary, emitted "streams of intelligence and those patriotic songs and tracts which so pre-eminently animated the defenders of American liberty." All the enthusiasm aroused by rebellion must have subverted the Puritan spirit of Stoughton, for the foundations soon began to crumble...
...Harvard, Boston University, and Tufts Medical Schools were all represented in the Essex County Superior Court in Salem about two weeks ago when the defendant undertaker was heard in a criminal proceeding. Charges of altering the death certificate, violating sepulchre and selling a dead body were dismissed...
...Arthur Vanderbilt was once the Republican leader of Essex County...
...year after Pearl Harbor Day, Pride got his first seagoing command: the carrier Belleau Wood, which joined with the Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga and Essex as the first big carrier strike force. Some of the names entered on the Belleau Wood's log: Tarawa, Wake Island, Makin, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, Tinian...