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...William Hale Thompson the horn-blowing mayor, and Fred Lundin, the silent man with the black glasses. The only member of the Lorimer- Thompson-Lundin gang left in power is Lennington Small, Governor of Illinois...
...year-old captain in the Revolutionary Army waited to be hanged as a spy by the British. With the rope around his neck, he said quietly: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." The life was that of Nathan Hale, martyr, hero...
...There is no finer record of high character and patriotic devotion, of unselfish service and of a spirit unquenched and majestic in death than that of Nathan Hale. . . . The hero's story should be taught to every child in our schools...
Married. Helen Manning Brown, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Herbert Dudley Hale of Boston, grandson of the late Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country, at St. James...
...lights went out at about 9 p. m. While many a tourist, not frightened by gun fire, shrieked with alarm at the innocuous darkness, Arab servants rushed about, knocking over tables, chairs, in a wild scramble for candles. Once light was restored, the panic guttered. Said one Harry Patterson Hale of Boston, tourist, to newsgatherers who boarded the California: "It was well worth the risk in going to Damascus, for the city was the most interesting* one that we visited on the cruise...