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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Curlcy's determination to force a referendum upon the Judges Retirement Plan has raised such an unsavoury smell around greater Boston that the odor of his rotten egg has seeped up Beacon Hill into the State House and irritated the gubernatorial nostrils. Being a man accustomed to a parasitic circle of "Yes" men, this unusual opposition has annoyed him considerably. In fact the Governor has become so aroused that he has started libel proceedings against a Boston Newspaper, alleging that marked copies of newspapers distributed several days ago had articles in them stating that he had ignored the Constitution...
This may be true concerning the last three named members but does not apply to their lead-off man H. V. Reeves. "H. V." spent his freshman and sophomore college years at Schreiner Institute, junior college in the hill country of Texas, trained under Schreiner's famed Coach "Bully" Gilstrap, distinguished himself athletically and academically, graduated in 1934. He entered the U. of T. that fall...
...jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials to follow him up the hill. Few minutes later Lieutenant Parker and his men had effectively silenced the German guns, captured 40 prisoners. Next day, when a bad foot wound left him unable to stand, he crawled on hands & knees at the head of his battalion, brought aid to a battalion under enfilade fire. There he stayed...
Dictator Mussolini turned on his heel, went back into his office. Most of the crowd started to stream across the city and up the hill to Vittorio Emanuele's Palazza del Quirinale. Radio announcers read the two brief decrees just approved by the Grand Council. Besides the complete annexation of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the King as Emperor, it provided that Ethiopia was to be ruled by a Governor General with the title of Vice roy who will also have authority over the Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland. First Viceroy of Ethiopia: Marshal of Italy, Cavaliere Pietro Badoglio...
From a political speech urging the establishment of a fish hatchery at Tupelo, Miss.: "Come visit with me in Tupelo. Come and go with me on College Hill some evening and see one of our Tupelo sunsets. Come and see one of our Southern silvery Tupelo moons. I think Tupelo is the only place in the South where we have the same beautiful moons we had before the war. . . . We have the ideal place for a fish hatchery at Tupelo. Why, sir, fish will travel over land for miles to get into the water we have at Tupelo. Thousands...