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With Scornful Eye and Harpy Tongue, Senator Pettigrew Views With Alarm...
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, was elected to the United States Senate in 1889. He remained there until 1902 when Mark Hanna "raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota...
...mayor," as he doesn't "want anything more to do with horses." Fortunately Mable isn't neglected for long, and the audience is spared wasting sympathy over there plight, because a naval aviator, Jack Wing, keeps here from getting lonely while Gwendolyn, the step-daughter of the rich Mrs. Pettigrew, is pursuing Bill at a Long Island country club. For a short time, the audience can only pin their faith on the author to bring Bill and Mable together, because they are so far separated that there seems no power but the exigencies of the playwright hard...
...Department and by the Cercle Francais; Professor I. L. Winter '86, chosen by the Department of Public Speaking; and R. W. Kelso '04, instructor in English, chosen by the Debating Council. E. S. Sheldon '72, Professor of Romance Philology, will preside, Incidental music will be given by Miss Florence Pettigrew of Boston...
...great work of the day, the final attempt of Lee to break Meade's army. The place selected for an attack was the centre of the line. After a fire of artillery, to demoralize the Federal troops, the Confederates advanced. 14,000 men, led by Pickett, Wilcox and Pettigrew, rushed forward. They got separated, and not supporting each other, all were captured or compelled to retreat. This last attack had failed, and the battle was ended. Lee, after he began to retreat, was not followed up closely enough by Meade, and escaped again into Virginia...