Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma passed a bill of impeachment against Governor J. C. Walton. The charges varied from placing his private chauffeur on the payroll of the Health Department to attempting to prevent a meeting of the legislature, and to accepting a bribe of $6,000 for approving a legislative bill. Except on one charge, that the Governor refused to permit the capital punishment laws to be carried out (he has pardoned and paroled almost 300 prisoners), the vote on every count was heavily against the Governor. On the capital punishment charge the vote was 51 to 42 against the Governor...
...Steinmetz, unmarried, had no relatives in the U. S. except a half-sister, Miss Clara Steinmetz of Manhattan. But years ago he adopted J. Le Roy Hayden, his chief assistant, who, with his wife and three children, lived in Dr. Steinmetz's home and cherished him as "grandpop...
Eccentricities. He never received a salary from the Company, but received at his own request irregular amounts when he needed them. But his income was large. He carried no life insurance except a $1,500 employee policy, and his estate will be less than $10,000. The Company built him a house and paid all his expenses...
...never wore an overcoat or a hat, except a coonskin cap in Winter...
Members of the Freshman class who have been competing against each other in dormitory combinations on gridiron and river, will meet in a third major sport this afternoon when the interdormitory track meet gets under way at 4 o'clock. Races are scheduled in all track events except the two mile...