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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dutifully Edward of Wales dressed himself in the scarlet and blue of the Welsh Guards, strewed medals on his chest, clapped a monumental fur busby on his head and walked round the corner from his home in York House to the entrance of St. James's Palace proper...
...certain contract, due to expire in 1914, to succeed to a white man. Lomen secured it and on the day of his succession founded the Lomen Reindeer Corp. The new company instituted reforms at once, substituted the corral for the lasso,† built a cold storage plant and proper houses for herdsmen. The problems of marking, slaughtering, packing and shipping, which had never occured to the Eskimos, were studied...
Franklin Buchanan, probably named after the late great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore...
...Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections in Nicaragua. The fellow we had in there nobody liked, 'but he was a useful fellow- to us ... so we declared the opposition candidates bandits. Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand. The 400 voters were assembled in a line and when they had voted . . . polls were closed." Hot-collared Novelist Sinclair Lewis, charging General Butler with "conspiracy to murder the men unjustly declared bandits," wrote a loud letter to Senator...
Results were speedy. The city's clergy unanimously voted an investigation. Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson issued broad denials. Massachusetts' Governor Frank G. Allen ordered his Attorney-General to take "right and proper" action. The article, by Walter W. Liggett, was called "Bawdy Boston." Its charges, stretching over the past decade, were specific...