Word: gwinnett
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece of Americana, paid $51,000 for a letter by Signer Button Gwinnett. Four years ago Yale University awarded...