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...Dalton, Mass., a tablet was last week unveiled "To W. MURRAY CRANE, 1853-1920," one of the great figures in Republican politics in the decade before the War. He was Governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903, and U. S. Senator from 1904 to 1913. He was a staunch party man, although he did not hesitate to oppose his colleagues on occasion, as for example when he supported the League of Nations after the War, opposing his erstwhile colleague, Senator Lodge...
William Howard Taft,*who spoke at the ceremony, declared: "Murray Crane and I were intimate friends. I cherish his memory as that of a loved and loving friend. I count it a great privilege to be permitted to come here and take part in this affectionate tribute to one of nature's noblemen...
...letter from President Coolidge read: "It is as a friend that those who knew Senator Crane will always remember...
...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...
Died. Sam Crane, 71, famed baseball writer, once "the greatest second baseman of the major leagues" ; in Manhattan, of pneumonia contracted while accompanying the Giants on their western trip. For many years he wrote of baseball for the New York Evening Journal and was famed for the gravity with which he handled...