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...Ajaccio General Fournier handed a reward of $4,000 to one Jean Simonetti, lumber contractor, for killing a bandit and blackmailer named Bartoli. Puffed with Corsican pride, Contractor Simonetti took the money and said to the General...
General Fournier did not entirely accept the offer. But he gave Contractor Simonetti a rifle and an arm band too. Later, General Fournier issued a statement: "The bandits will eventually be brought within reach of our guns by their craving for good food, drink, and companionship...
Married. Ruth Carol Key, only daughter of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key, co-junketer with him and 23 other U. S. mayors in Europe last June (TIME, June 8); and William Monroe Butler, Atlanta contractor; in Atlanta...
...large, best soldiers of the Confederacy were Gentlemen; best soldiers of the Union were not. Philip Henry Sheridan's only articles of gentility were contained in his officer's commission. His Irish immigrant father was a laborer, rose to be foreman and small contractor. Sheridan wanted to be a soldier; when he wangled an appointment to West Point he worked desperately hard to get in, desperately hard to get through. A funny-looking little fellow, with a big head, long arms, short bowlegs, he resented personal remarks and was constantly getting into fights; "on many occasions Sheridan...
Bill Fallon's father was an Irish contractor who prospered in Tammany-run Manhattan, gave his son a college education at Fordham. There Bill was popular with his peers, well-thought-of by his preceptors, and constantly on the edge of trouble. With a winning disposition, brazen effrontery, an excellent memory and a gift of the gab, he naturally turned . . . to the Law. Starting in Westchester County he soon rose to be Assistant District Attorney. In his prosecution of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne of Sing Sing for mismanagement and immorality he showed that he understood his job, but overplayed...