Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent for Pursuit of Happiness, reported...
Sherman R. Moulton '01, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont: Justice Antonio Capotesto of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; and Judge Carroll C. Hincks of the United States District Court for the District of Connectient, presided...
...Dour, GOP-Hopeful George David Aiken, Governor of Vermont, irked by pleas of pressure groups to "proclaim" special days and weeks for the promotion ot worthy causes and foods, issued a proclamation ending all such proclamations...
...Hopeless: Senators Clyde Reed of Kansas, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, Warren Barbour of New Jersey, Chan Gurney of South Dakota, Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, Wallace White and Frederick Hale of Maine, Ernest Gibson and Warren Austin of Vermont, Rufus Holman of Oregon, John Townsend of Delaware, James Davis of Pennsylvania...
Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...