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...California Governor Rolph reprieved Peter Farrington, condemned murderer. Reason: doubtful legality of a hanging on a holiday...
Topics. "It's Asia's century," said one-time Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, a bull on Pacific trade...
...delegates from eleven of the 20 U. M. W. districts. They came in third-hand automobiles, on freight-car rods, by hitchhiking. Theirs was a vindictive mood. Leaders who had summoned them?John H. Walker, Illinois Federation of Labor president; Harry Fishwick, president of Illinois U. M. W.; Frank Farrington, past president of Illinois U. M. W.; Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas U. M. W. ?they treated with rowdy distrust. Suspicious of "steam roller" methods, they insisted that the most trivial proceedings be openly transacted on the floor before them. A tremendous uproar occurred when the secretary passed...
Elected. Herbert Farrington Perkins, first vice president of International Harvester Co.; to be president, succeeding Alexander Legge, new-chosen chairman of the Federal Farm Board...
...days seem like holidays in Hawaii but one day this week was exceptionally festive. The bright streets of Honolulu were crowded. The warm air throbbed with music. Guns boomed salutes, soldiers tramped. The U. S. Territory of Hawaii was inaugurating a new Governor. After eight years' service, Wallace Rider Farrington was turning his office over to Lawrence McCully Judd...