Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Born: on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1880. Start in life: prosecutor. Career: Son of a well-to-do farmer who moved into Canton to take a local Treasury job when William McKinley became President, he received a public school education, attended Ohio State University, studied law at Western Reserve University. With a natural flair for politics he got a job as assistant prosecutor of Stark County but gave it up after three years to practice privately. Ambitious, he ran for the House of Representatives when 32, was beaten; got himself elected two years later, re-elected...
...Congress: He lives at the expensive but not very fashionable Carlton Hotel on 16th St., often walks the two miles to the Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died...
Albert Bates Lord '34, Boston Latin School; Charles Montague Johnson '34, Needham High School; Williard Copt Jones '34, Roxbury Latin; and Francis Joseph Mosley '34, Canton High School, China...
Near Norwich, N. Y., the Goodyear VIII, with the veteran Ward Tunte Van Orman and Alan MacCracken, was hurled down 8,000 ft. by a vertical current. The basket hit the earth, bounced up again, sailed on. Near Canton, Mass., the pilots deliberately landed, they said, to avoid being blown to sea. With a distance mark of 550 mi. they were (unofficially) winners of the fifth consecutive U. S. victory...
...organizing the new line, and the mail contract is in its name. Baltimore's two trunk railroads, Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio, are also represented among the line's directors. Pennsylvania has a financial interest, will supply rail connections, will let the new line dock at its Canton Co. Terminal, where about $5,000,000 will be spent on improvements...