Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President pro tem of the Senate, a Republican, mounted the rostrum and attempted to call the meeting to order and proceed with the Appropriation Bill. As the reading clerk began to read, a Democratic Senator snatched the Bill from his hands. A general battle of fisticuffs ensued which the Sheriff was obliged to quell. The incident passed...
When the Chamber had been aired and deliberations resumed, several Republican members were absent. The Lieutenant Governor ordered the High Sheriff to arrest them. He went and came back without them?producing a physician's certificate stating they were unable to attend...
...Said the Sheriff, a Republican: "A doctor certified they were not well enough to attend the Senate sessions, and I shall not attempt to force them to attend until he has certified that they have recovered. If they have left the State, it was without my permission. To search for them I should need additional appropriations...
...Delivered by him at the time of the marriage of his gigantic brother, onetime Sheriff "Bob"; Chanler, to Lina Cavalieri...
...President Eliot sat down, the whole assemblage resumed their places. The Sheriff of Middlesex County,--a white haired old man in the dark blue uniform of a civil war veteran, walked to the center of the platform and pounded three times upon the floor with his gold-hilted sword as he said "The assembly will now come to order...