Word: rider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delayed correspondence last week told of Explorer-Senator Bingham's behavior on the August evening that he dined with Governor Wallace Rider Farrington and a distinguished gathering at Washington Place, the governor's mansion...
...swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough to lope down the avenue in my ripe...
Inside a Pullman a girl awoke with a scream, rolled over with a moan, exclaiming, "I'm shot!" She was Miss Florence M. Anderson, Los Angeles schoolteacher, returning home from a summer course at the National University, Mexico City. Her friend, Miss Louise Rider, also of Los Angeles, summoned help and administered first aid. It was found that Miss Anderson had been shot in the left side toward the back, the slug piercing her intestines...
Said Miss Rider: "We were all sleeping when the firing began. It sounded like a Fourth of July celebration. We were warned by the Pullman conductor that the train was being attacked and to be careful...
...quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions, deplore evils, suggest remedies; meanwhile the man who holds official authority and responsibility for Hawaiian affairs is Governor Wallace Rider Farrington. Governor (by appointment of President Harding) since July 5, 1921, he has been, is and will be concerned chiefly with one major "problem" the Japanese question. For while the Hawaiian Islands are called Hawaiian on the maps and in the histories, the original Hawaiian stock constitutes less than...