Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams' President Emeritus Harry Augustus Garfield had one way of dealing with students who objected to compulsory chapel. It was to denounce them as "busybodies." His successor, Tyler Dennett, has another way. Chapel this year will be voluntary...
...revolvers of armed bodyguards to pepper his body. From all reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...
Joseph Boggs Beale was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, General John Hancock, many another bigwig. Yet elderly Philadelphians last week could remember but one political story connected with him. When James A. Garfield was offered the Republican nomination against Winfield Hancock in 1880, he wrote to his mother asking her advice. The Professor was having a dish of tea at the Garfield home when the letter arrived...
...What shall my boy do?" asked Mrs. Garfield...
...Garfield was elected and assassinated within a year...