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...When hulking, hard-drinking Stephen G. Simmons of what is now Wayne, Mich, was hanged in Detroit in 1830 for beating to death his invalid wife, Hangman Ben Woodworth made such a public spectacle of the affair that public aversion was aroused. Hanging Indians was one thing, hanging whites another. Eight years later, just across the border, Canada hanged a man subsequently proved innocent. Eight years after that, Michigan startled the world by declaring against capital punishment except for traitors...
Third and most influential champion of the idea is Robert Rhea (pronounced Ray), a Colorado Springs invalid, author of The Dow Theory, textbook published in 1932 at the bottom of Depression I. Printed at his own expense. 91,000 copies have been sold. Robert Rhea first went to Colorado Springs in 1910 with tuberculosis, in three years was pronounced cured. But in the air service during the War he had a minor crackup, got influenza and pneumonia, was discharged as permanently and totally disabled. Seeking relief from pain in utter exhaustion, he worked in bed at market studies begun earlier...
...When the two-man Board went ahead with its work without him, he sought to prove their actions invalid. Then they adopted a formal rule of majority procedure, and thereafter Chairman Morgan was not isolated by them, but "by his own action, removed himself" from the Board's work by chronic dissent, or by absence (28 out of 94 meetings...
...time in Stillman during his first month. It would not be conducive to joyful feelings even the most hearty. May I suggest to all those upperclassmen who have not outworn doing a daily good turn that here is a fruitful field of endeavor--a visit to an invalid Freshman would not be unappreciated, even by the most bilish. Charles H. Clark...
...Healey 92 Samuel W. White 90 Phil C. Neal 87 Michael B. Grace 87 Torbert H. Macdonald 86 John L. Donnell 83 Charles D. Lutz 76 Engene V. Clark 59 Fay Rockwell Hollands 49 Theodore L. Hazlett 47 Ledyard B. Clard 29 Martin J. Lydon 22 Total 508 Invalid 17 *Elected 1939 RESULTS *F. Austin Harding 193 *Richard H. Sullivan 168 *Robert L. Green 167 *Charles L. Burwell 148 *James Tobin 141 *J. Spence Harvin 139 Cleveland Amory 136 Clarence E. Boston 133 Edmond L. Cherbonnier 128 Oliver P. Bolton 128 Robert M. Bunker 122 Robert E. L. Strider...