Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love our State are sticking all the closer. While being poor is no fun, this is the best place in the world to be poor in. We ask for nothing and hope we get what we ask for. JOHN SMITH...
...McMahon of the United Textile Workers of America wired Governor Richards: _ "National executive board United Textile Workers of America in session here today instructs me to say to you that this organization will hold Governor of State as chief police officer personally responsible for safety of our representatives John Peel and Vernon Allen while in your state. According to telegrams reaching us from Representative Peel today his life was threatened by thugs in the employ of textile corporations in Ware Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection in the fulfillment...
That year at Pompton Plains, N. J., was born John Richard Voorhis, scion of an old Dutch family. At the age of one he was taken to Manhattan, to the village that was Greenwich Village. He sat on his great-grandfather's knee, heard eyewitness stories of the Revolution. He became a carpenter, built a mahogany stairway for Citizen A. T. Stewart's store (now Wanamakers...
...Died. John Cotton Dana, 72, of Newark, N. J., Librarian of the Newark Public Library, Director of the Newark Museum Association; in Manhattan...
...Poet John Howard Payne wrote the extra verses in 1829 as a personal tribute to the "exile" of the verses-Lucretia Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, famed London banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates...