Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Restaurant, where the town's bachelors go to drink their breakfast Coca-Cola. One was Mayor John T. Stricklin, oldtime politician. The other was Dentist R. E. Hawkins whom white-thatched, bespectacled Frank R. Birdsall, member of the State tax commission, editor & publisher of three-times-a-week Sentinel had supported in February's mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly attacked Mayor Stricklin, alluding to cattle thieving, a charge for which the Mayor was indicted but exonerated last year. Among these three there was the kind...
Yazoo citizens knew that during his own 35 years of stormy local journalism, Editor Birdsall had certainly feared nothing. A few years after he bought the Sentinel (1895), he and his in-laws shot it out with the Kelly boys from Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main...
Downhill. Last year the New York State Legislature passed an act authorizing the construction of a bobsled run on Sentinel Range near Lake Placid for the winter Olympic games to be held there in 1932. Last week the Court of the Appellate Division decided the act was unconstitutional. Said the court: sliding down a hillside is one act-nothing unconstitutional in that; but chopping down the state's trees to make the slide is not right. Some 2,600 trees would have to be chopped down to clear the hill. Attorney-General Hamilton Ward, in sympathy with bobsledding, said...