Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following: "DR. COOK AS NEAR PAROLE AS POLE." The news was that Federal Judge James C. Wilson of Fort Worth, Tex., had granted probationary freedom to Dr. Cook, under a 1925 law which allows Federal judges to liberate prisoners. But, U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, a Vermont country product, announced that he wanted to test this law in the courts. Judge Wilson agreed, recalled his probation order. So, Dr. Cook, who waited for no poles, must wait for the U. S. courts. Whatever happens, he will be eligible for parole in 1930 (his prison term ends...
Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont: "As I was walking with my wife on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, on Feb. 15, 1924, a Prohibition agent shot me in the forehead. He was aiming at a fleeing bootlegger. For weeks I lay in bed, half-dead, half-alive. Finally I recovered, except for a partial paralysis which makes me limp. At the time of my accident, on motion of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Congress voted me $7,500 for medical expenses. Last week it became known that I had returned the $7,500 to the Government. Said...
...Vermont boyhood, Calvin Coolidge was reputed to be a crack squirrel shot...
Tonight will be Slocum's first appearance since the game with the University of Vermont on February 23, when he suffered the injury to his ankle...
Springfield defeated Harvard last year and usually has excellent quintets, and this year is no exception, the team only having lost one game out of 13. Carnegie, Vermont and Tufts are among the first calibre teams which Springfield has defeated...