Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said to cherish a longing to visit his distant dominions, such as Porto Rico. But Governor Towner said nothing of the romance of tropic nights; clung tenaciously to statistical accuracy. When the Governor was a Congressman from Iowa he could fill his collar, and his cheeks were full. Now, after three years in Porto Rico, he is thin...
...murder of Sheriff Henry H. H. Howard. The Sheriff was a Klansman. He had been shot in-the back while raiding the house of Sam Lowman, father of the three prisoners. While Howard's body lay in state Klansmen had paraded past it, two by two, in full regalia. A fiery cross was burned in the cemetery on the anniversary of his death. Meanwhile the Lowmans were tried and sentenced to death. The State Supreme Court reversed this sentence and ordered a new trial. Judge Lanham, presiding in the case, had just charged his jury for a verdict...
...story says he collected the jewels in a pint milk bottle, took it home full. -Mr. Stephenson says he spent $120,000 to elect Governor Jackson, and later commanded him to appoint Senator Robinson, Republican, as the successor of the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat...
Next day Lieutenant General Wilhelm Heye, Commander of the First Reichswehr Division, was appointed to succeed General von Seeckt as Chief of the Army Command. Since the new Chef is not a full general he is outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...
...aptitude of Professor Murray for this work can too easily dwarf the proportions of any potential successor. Such must not be the case. Fear must not allow the University to fail in gaining the full advantage of such an endowment by provoking an appointment from within. One of the clearest advantages of this professorship is that it brings to Harvard, in succeeding years, men from without whose viewpoint is it similar in intellectual background, different in that it has developed in another atmosphere among other scenes. It will not be impossible to find such men for this position, uniquely difficult...