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When he was 73 and she 23, the late great Tammany Chieftain Richard Croker married Kotaw Kaluntuchy (Bula Benton Edmondson), descendant of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. She had sung, lectured on Indians, ridden a horse at New York's Hippodrome. She studied enough law to defend her $5,000,000 legacy from her husband against the children of the first Mrs. Croker. She became one of the largest landed proprietors of West Palm Beach...
...Coast Guard machine-gunner was branded "a miserable skunk." Congressman John Joseph Douglass declared: "We're not here to defend rum-runners. We're here to enforce the command of God: 'Thou shalt not kill.' " Orated one-time Boston Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald : "These men were bringing in liquor for New Year's Eve. They knew it would be consumed by Governors, Mayors, Selectmen, Judges of the Supreme Court-in fact by public officials everywhere." U. S. Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf of Rhode Island sent the meeting a telegram to the effect that the dead...
Even though Harvard will not participate in the races the meet should attract considerable local interest both because of the new pool and because of the caliber of the contestants. Coach Wilson of Northwestern will send a full team of natators to defend the first place laurels that his charges won last year. Michigan will also continue its athletic relations with Harvard, begun in baseball and football, by sending a squad of swimmers that last year ranked high in Big Ten aquatic circles...
Pierre Etchebaster, kinetic Basque, world's champion court tennis racqueteer, arrived in Manhattan from France to be an instructor at the Racquet and Tennis Club, to play exhibition matches, defend his title if an adequate opponent be found...
...Originally this was the bailiwick of President Chiang Kai-Shek, and from it he sallied, three years ago, at the head of the Nationalist Army which proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses were searched for cartridges and small arms, General Ho paying...