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In the military cemetery at West Point was laid to rest last week Margaret Corbin, alias "Sergeant" Molly Pitcher. A delegation from the Daughters of the American Revolution attended the ceremony. For on Nov. 16, 1776, Sergeant Molly's husband, a gunner, was wounded in the battle of Fort...
As Mr. Churchill rested at Belfast, the guest of Premier Sir James Craig of Ulster, he may well have recalled the day 14 years ago when Ulstermen rioted against the militant First Sea Lord whom they acclaimed in his peaceful guise of Chancellor last week.
The world's middleweight boxing title last week entered the Madison Square Garden prize ring wreathed invisibly about the swart, truculent brows of Champion Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, where it had rested since an August evening in 1923. It left the ring cocked deliriously askew on the black, tight-wooled...
When it arrived, Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, skimmed through the lengthy preamble and rested his eye fondly on the conclusion: "I have the honor, in accordance with Article 1 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to formulate herewith, in the name of...
As for the prospect of immediate settlement it rested on two frail hopes, action by the Pennsylvania Government and action by the Federal Government. In Pennsylvania, Governor Pinchot is faced by a legislature which is in good part hostile to him, depriving him of most power except that of persuasion...