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...army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier should meet his death. Marching to his execution, on a hill west of Tappan, N.Y., he remarked to his captors: "I am very much surprised to find your troops under such good discipline, and your music is excellent...
...this point, the Abolitionists, led by a New York merchant named Lewis Tappan, began to protest. To return the Africans to Spain was to sentence them to death. A legal staff was assembled to defend Cinqué and his people. Sketches of Cinqué, suggesting a rare nobility of nature, roused public support in the North; friends of the Africans quoted William Cullen Bryant's poem...
After 39 years with Kennecott Copper Corp., E. Tappan Stannard, 66, decided to retire. He had joined Kennecott in 1911 as a mining engineer in Chile, risen to general manager of Kennecott's Alaska mines five years later, and moved into the presidency in 1933. Under him, Kennecott, biggest copper producer in the U.S., boosted sales from $50 million to $350 million a year...
...Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court's president, young ex-Lieut. Fred Tappan, promptly suspended sentence. "I am not going to send a hungry man to jail for killing a dog," he said...
...told her boss, who told his boss. Soon the case reached the ears of Major General F. A. Keating, Commander of U.S. Forces in Berlin, who told his deputy, dog-loving Colonel Frank L. Howley, to, investigate. The military court's order was reversed, and young Judge Tappan censured. As Locksmith Tietz was dragged off to jail again, his bewildered wife, with a large bunch of roses clutched in one hand and her small son gripped by the other, called on Miss Six. Betty took the flowers uncertainly, stammered through an interpreter that, really, she had had nothing...