Word: sampson
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When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
Died. Martin Wright Sampson, 63, longtime professor and head of the English department at Cornell University; as the result of injuries received in an auto accident, at Pittsburgh...
...State start for Washington to see the President. At the White House they assembled: Governors Caulfield of Missouri, Emmerson of Illinois. Leslie of Indiana, Cooper of Ohio, Conley of West Virginia, Pollard of Virginia, Weaver of Nebraska, Hammill of Iowa, Reed of Kansas, Erickson of Montana. Republican Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky wanted to attend but did not dare leave his state lest Lieutenant Governor James E Breathitt. a Democrat, exercise executive authority to make political appointments. Governor Sampson sent Republican Senator John Robsion as his proxy. Governors Horton of Tennessee and Parnell of Arkansas also were represented by proxy...
Last week no official action was taken to arbitrate the miners' war. Governor Flem D. Sampson had refused troops to Webster County many times previously, was not last week asked. But State and Federal authorities acted quickly to apprehend Flyer Paul Montgomery of Murphysboro, Ill., who said he had been forced by death-threats to take a bomb-dropper over Providence. Said Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics: "The dropping of explosives or anything else from a plane in flight, deliberately with intention . . . or by negligence, is a crime...