Word: laconic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William W. Hancock '38 of Lacon, Illinois and Eliot House was elected president, succeeding Thomas W. Stephenson '37. Robert W. Bean '39 of Council Bruffs, Iowa and Dunster House was elected vice-president, succeeding W. Tucker Dean '37. Bean is a former president of the Freshman Debating Team. Lawrence F. Ebb '39 of Dorcehester and Lowell House was elected secretary, succeeding John A. Sullivan '38. Fred W. Peel '39 of Danville, Kentucky and Dunster House was elected to the new post of Secretary for Public Information...
Going down Lacon Mountain 20 miles out of Decatur, the five cars carrying prisoners and officers came suddenly to a halt. Later there was no agreement as to how and why the affray started. But. in sum, Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles...
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