Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William S. ("Hog Jaw") Taylor was his name. He was the candidate who had the Governor's office while Goebel contested it. At his trial it was testified that he offered $2,500 to the man who would shoot Goebel. When Goebel was declared Governor by the Legislature, "Governor" Taylor's friends had assembled an army of 1,500 hillbillies in Frankfort for a finish fight. After the shooting, "Governor" Taylor called out the Militia. Frankfort seethed for weeks...
...case dragged along in the courts, and "Governor" Taylor kept out of jail. One day in May the Supreme Court of the U. S. made a decision.* Mr. Taylor paced up and down in the District Attorney's office at Louisville, waiting for the news. Suddenly he cried: "I must go to my home in Butler county.'" and rushed out of the room, his black coattails dancing behind him, his black "Colonel's" hat flapping with the speed...
...tower rises to a height of 205 feet 2 inches. The canllon has 61 bells with 48 tones and was cast at John Taylor & Sons Bell-foundry at Loughborough, England. They will be shipped to the States within a few months...
...John Taylor, blind preacher of the Congregational church at Brule urged his flock to keep faith in the Biblical story about Jonah and the Whale. Said he: "Jonah found his salvation down there in the submarine [belly of the whale] ... so many men doubt the prophecy of Jonah because they don't trust God." The presidential family listened attentively...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...