Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coroner's inquest found that he had met "accidental death" when he was either knocked from a moving freight car as it went under an under pass or was struck down by a train as he picked his way along the ties. His home was in Hartford, Connecticut...
Before he came to Harvard, Bird attended the Kingswood School in West Hartford, Connecticut. Last winter he served on a Student Council committee which investigated the problem of how men are admitted to the Houses...
Though few remember it, Beard was famed in the '80s and '90s as an illustrator. His masterpiece was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (Said Mark Twain: "It was a lucky day I went netting for lightning bugs and caught a meteor.") His drawings of monks swigging ale got him boycotted for nearly ten years by most big magazines. Another time he was made to put shoes on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, prohibited from drawing cows with udders...
...Attorney Hugh Mead Alcorn, the man who helped send famed Murderer Gerald Chapman to the gallows, was called in. Hayes & Co. were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled the hard eyes...
Born. To John Coolidge, 33, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, only living son of the late Calvin Coolidge and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 34, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull: a daughter; in New Haven. Name: Lydia. Weight: 8 Ib. 6 oz. Their other child, Cynthia...