Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Margaret Wright Hawkins, wife of William Waller Hawkins, general manager of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. She was the daughter of Major J. M. Wright, long-time Marshal of the U. S. Supreme Court, and a cousin of Managing Editor Keats Speed of the New York...
...Weakest Man." Intensifying the bitterness of the whole contest was an attack on Governor Roosevelt by Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, field marshal for the Smith forces. Just before the Roosevelt men met to discuss the rules, the mimeograph at Smith headquarters reeled out Hague's blast. Excerpts: "Governor Roosevelt, if nominated, has no chance of winning in November. He cannot carry a single State east of the Mississippi. . . . The Democratic party has a golden opportunity but for the party to select the weakest man cannot bring success. Governor Roosevelt has utterly failed in his last two attempts...
Edward of Wales alighted last week at Cambridge aerodrome in his usual high spirits. "Where's my hat gone?" he shrilled as dignitaries carrying high silk hats and led by the Earl Marshal advanced respectfully. Fishing up a battered straw "boater" from the bottom of the plane, H. R. H. climbed out, clapped the boater momentarily upon the head of the Earl Marshal, giggled...
...Antioch, 111., convicted by a jury of having bitten the town marshal, Biter John Brogan dived into the jury box, rapidly bit eight jurors...
...Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table...