Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Warden of the Billingsgate Fishmongers Co., an institution which nourished in the days of Robert Bruce (three centuries before the birth of Shakespeare), proudly conducted the Duke of York to Fishmongers Hall...
...dies at an awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
...PETERSBURG, Fla., May 13 (AP) - Thomas Mott Osborn, 80, for more than a quarter of a century warden of Sing Sing prison, N. Y., died here late today. He had been ill for several weeks...
...before orders for his commitment could be prepared?and paid a visit. He had been in prison before when he was a boy of 22, for deserting from the Army. Since then he has won the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre in France. He said to the warden: "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution, and I do not expect to be shown any favors over other prisoners. If I am assigned to shoveling coal, I shall not make the slightest complaint. I am willing to do anything you may require...
...State Department in British East Africa got Britain's permission for an expedition to enter the Tanganyika region. Dr. Mann assembled a large corps of able field naturalists, including Albert J. Loveridge of the Harvard zoology staff, who was for eight years an assistant game warden of the Tanganyika territory. Mechanics at the National Zoo built scores of collapsible crates. Keeper Frank Lowe of the Zoo was bidden along to care for animals captured. It was planned to push inland from Dar-es-Salaam, establish a base camp near the railroad and stay five or six months...