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...celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
...most of his legislators were opposed to cotton relief legislation. He declared he would be a "boob" to call them into session. When he discovered that a majority did favor legislative action, he issued the call and remarked: "It will be a farmers' session and they'll have to ramrod it themselves. I'm going fishing...
Ramrodders. To "ramrod the session" as Governor Sterling would not, thousands of overalled cotton farmers left their white-flecked fields and flocked into Austin. In the House they were admitted to the chamber floor, permitted to make little speeches about what they wanted. They jostled about the Capitol corridors, clamored for a "Drop-a-Crop...
Prince Arthur, representing the Royal Family, sat ramrod stiff at the head of the glistening Guildhall board, waited with just the proper, courteous inclination of his head for James Henry ("Jimmy") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, to propose his very good health...
Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...