Word: returning
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When Mr. Frank Murphy was Governor-General of the Philippine Islands he engaged as confidential secretary one William Teahan, a Canadian citizen. Unless he has been naturalized since his return to America, Mr. Teahan is still a Canadian, and has continued on the payroll of the U. S. Government as secretary to Mr. Murphy, now Governor of Michigan...
...debate at Washington droned on, furnishing a strange far-off accompaniment, Negroes Townes and McDaniels were led handcuffed from the courtroom. If their minds registered anything as the sheriff and two deputies escorted them down the back stairs to return them to jail, it was relief. The Court had assigned counsel to defend them, set a date for trial by jury. Everything was according to law. But when they stepped out of a side door of the courthouse, they found themselves face to face with what so often handles cases like theirs in the South. An angry mob surged forward...
...hatted West-Enders returning from their revels loitered in the chilly streets of London early last Sunday morning to watch the Duke of Norfolk's partly-dressed rehearsal of the Coronation procession. Thousands of others rose from their beds while it was still dark, turned out to get a better idea of what happens when a British monarch is crowned than most of them will get on the day of the ceremony. At 6:16 a.m. the procession moved off en route for Westminster Abbey. As the four-ton gilded coach, similar to that in which King George & Queen...
...David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage, spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain Jones put out to sea again, officially to return to Britain. All the other Joneses wagered he would make one more attempt to get through to Bilbao...
Open to both men and women, the European architecture course will open at Harvard June 28; the students will sail from Boston July 3 and return to the United States August 23. The party will examine particularly the development of the "New Architecture" in Europe...