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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressive ceremony on Boston Common tomorrow morning, Governor Allen will present to the West Point Cadets twelve gold spear heads, adorned with the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on one side and that of the United States on the other, as a gift of the State Senate to the United States Military Academy. These spear heads are designed to be used on the company guidons, and are about eight inches long and beautifully designed with an attractice dull finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOVERNOR TO PRESENT SPEAR HEADS TO CADETS TOMORROW | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...Prize Drill Platoon, First Corps of Cadets (211th. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft) of Massachusetts. Forty men clad in striking uniforms of white jackets with light blue facings and light blue trousers will compose the troop which will first act in the capacity of official escort to the Governor in the morning program. Following the review upon the Common, the platoon will be dismissed at the Armory, and will reassemble in the Yard in time to assist the Reception Committee in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLATOON AIDS ARMY WELCOME | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...himself and his four followers in the revolt which began at noon. Daniels had also demanded in repeated messages and shouted parleys that Warden Francis Eugene Crawford supply them with automobiles to drive away in. "Go to hell!" was Warden Crawford's reply each time, approved by Governor William H. Adams over the telephone from Denver. About 10 p.m., Cellhouse No. 4 caught fire, heightening the glare in the courtyard. The convicts in Cellhouse No. 3 still held ten hostages. Father Patrick O'Neil, the burly prison priest, cried: "I can stand this no longer!" He started across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Danny Daniels' Party | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss making the Governor of the Bank of England sign the check that bought the Suez Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies. Was not their plane painted the red of the Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar, town on the Chinese Eastern Railroad. There the captors telegraphed Chang Hsueh-liang, Governor of Manchuria, of the arrests. He, more news-wise than the people, rewired that the Frenchmen be handled politely, be given aid for continuance of their flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: France to Manchuria | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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