Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of Florida...
Aged 49, married, father of two, Senator McCulloch resides at Canton, is frequently likened by sentimentalists to President William McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. For six years (1915-21) Senator McCulloch served in the House. This year he has been chairman of the State Utilities Commission. Quiet in manner, personable in looks, regular in his Republicanism, Senator McCulloch was chosen on a pledge to support "Hoover policies" in the Senate...
Less pleasant than Sing Sing are New York's Auburn and Dannemora, with their ancient cell blocks, cramped, fetid cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...
...Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide...
...Highly complimented" felt Senator Borah last week to learn that his State, following the example of Wyoming which named its highest peak after its longtime Senator Francis Emroy Warren (TIME, July 1), was naming its highest spot Mount Borah. The Idaho Geographic Board, with the Senator's permission, forwarded the mountain's new name to the U. S. Geographic Board in Washington for inscription on all future maps...