Word: strafford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lawrence Davis Tyson, 68, of Knoxville, Tenn., U. S. Senator from Tennessee; at Strafford...
...remains a conviction that Doheny and Fall were acquitted more through skilful manipulation of the paradoxical machinery of the Common Law than through conviction of their innocence. It has never been easy to prove guilt in cases of major political importance. The ordinary course of justice could not convict Strafford of treason; public odium and the amazing oratory of Burke and Sheridan could not find Hastings guilty...
Posterity has excused the crimes of Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...
John Ogden Whedon '27 of Jamaica, New York, was elected to the office of president. Somers Hayes Sturgis '27 of Groton was elected to the office of Ibis, and the position of Assistant Treasurer was voted to Harlow Niles Higinbotham '28, of Joliet, Illinois. Maurice Hecksher '28, of Strafford, Pennsylvania, was elected to the office of secretary...
...lords and ladies was invited-the Londonderrys, the Greys, the Oxfords and Asquiths, the Desboroughs, Lord Cowdray, Lady Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote, Premier and Mrs. Baldwin and Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain. Among the Americans present were Ambassador Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Cora, Countess of Strafford, Lady Astor, Frederick Sterling, Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy; Ray Atherton, First Secretary; Boylston A. Deal, special attache. The men were dressed in court costume, the ladies in expensive gowns. The banquet over, the King and the other gentlemen stayed to crack the usual jokes and discuss the usual...