Word: warders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Superintendent of Banks. Frank H. Warder, also had been cast out because of the City Trust failure...
Despatches announced that on Aug. 1 the Musical Art Quartet will sail, for Italy where they will play for the pleasure of U. S. Ambassador to Italy John Work Garrett and his wife, Alice Warder Garrett, famed for her parties in Rome, her love for & interest in the Cause of Art, her espousals of many a worthy "movement" (TIME, Aug. 12). At present summering in Baltimore the Garretts will return soon to Rome and ambassadorial duties. But first they will go to Capri where the Quartet's concerts are to be given; where a friend, Dr. Axle Munthe, has loaned...
...dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder, and a turnkey. A lull comes at nightfall while a searchlight sweeps the grated windows; there are three rebels left and only two bullets. Hope has long since gone. Even the shooting of the warden had been an act not so much of hope as of protest against a life...