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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Private secretary to the Governor of a sovereign State is a position fraught with grave responsibilities. Captain Herman A. MacDonald of Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...
...shots rang out in Douglas, Ga., last week, and reverberated as far as Washington. L. S. Peterson, recently relieved of his job of postmaster for shortage in his accounts, had killed his clerk, then himself. He left a letter asserting that $2,000 had been demanded of him in five years for Federal patronage...
...chief sensation of the trial, last week, was the reading of the fatal letter. Captain Dewar had written...
President Thomas Elsa Jones of Fisk University (Negro) at Nashville, Tenn., received the following letter last week from a prominent U. S. citizen...
Dear Mr. Jones: I have been a long time in replying to your letter of January 25, asking me to give the commencement address at Fisk University on June 6 of this year...