Saturday, November 5, 2011

[1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes & others
try to blow up the English Parliament]
(Remember, remember, the 5th of November)

   
[1855 - Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, socialist, born in Terre Haute, Indiana]

   
[1857 - Ida Minerva Tarbell, teacher, author, editor, born in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania]

      
[1885 - Will (William James) Durant, writer, historian, philosopher, born in North Adams, Massachusetts]

       
[1893 - Raymond Loewy, industrial designer, inventor, engineer, born in Paris]

   
[1905 - Joel (Albert) McCrea, actor, born in South Pasadena, California]

[1911 - Roy Rogers, singing cowboy, born in
Cincinnati, Ohio]

[1913 - Vivien Leigh (Vivian Hartley), actress, born in Darjeeling, India]

   
[1913 - John McGiver, actor, born in New York City]

       
[1930 - Sinclair Lewis wins the Nobel Prize for Literature]   (First American writer to win the prize)

Service With a Scowl

Twenty years as a professional military officer; twenty years practicing law. For most of a working life, william has been cleaning up other people's messes.

William's Whimsical Words:

The pay was somewhat better than janitorial wages, but the nature of the work is pretty much the same.

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