Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Laborite Leader Ram say Macdonald rebuke Laborite Backbencher Lawson when he attempted to heckle the Speaker. Craning his neck like an angry bull turtle, former Premier Macdonald snapped: "Stop it, Lawson! Say you're sorry. Apologize to the Speaker." Mr. Lawson reddened, purpled, offered the (for him) supreme apology of remaining silent for some hours...
...Donegan E.T.S., R. H. Fogel '28, J. D. Gatsos '29, F. W. Green '28, J. U. Harris E.T.S., J. M. Hernandez 3G., W. C. Hicks E.T.S. '25, E. J. Hodder '28, F. K. Huang 2G., Younghill Kang 1G. Ed., F. C. Lawrence '20 (1G.), Robert Lawson E.T.S., S. T. Liu 2G., R. E. McEvoy E.T.S., R. M. Mears '27, O. R. Rice E.T.C., C. O. Simpson '27, W. I. Tibbetts 17, G. A. Weller '29, D. C. Shaw...
Editor Victor E. Lawson of the Willmar (Minn.) Tribune, in his letter published in TIME, May 24, p. 2, reiterates the fiction that the Confederate ship Merrimac (Virginia) was defeated by, and "fled" from, Ericsson's Monitor...
...informed and honest not to perpetrate such an arrant canard in a matter of history. The oft repeated contention that the Monitor defeated the Merrimac is refuted even by Federal historians themselves. Without vouching for the records (which I shall be glad to do for you or for Mr. Lawson), it seems sufficient to the purposes of this brief letter to quote Ericsson himself. He did not consider that the Monitor won the fight, and said in a letter written...
...Lawson's contention is sound, one wonders why the Monitor did not capture the Merrimac, and why the Monitor herself fled to shoal water and to the protection of Fortress Monroe when the Merrimac twice came down the river and offered fight...