Word: alton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Couch gave a house party at Couchwood. George B. Shaw and W. Alton Jones of Cities Service dropped from the skies in a great glistening white monoplane. Governor Futrell of Arkansas and a few ranking members of the State's judiciary were already on hand. From St. Louis went a delegation headed by Tom K. Smith of Boatmen's National Bank who lately resigned as an assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Higher education was represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco...
...August Luer, 77, Alton, Ill. banker kidnapped in July 1933, was returned unharmed. Federal men were on the case early and three criminals got life sentences from the State courts...
...Plata, Md., a young Negro drove his stolen car to an outlying farm, entered the house under cover of night, edged carefully into a bed where Alton Davis was sleeping with his bride of two weeks. Undisturbed, Davis and wife slumbered on until morning...
...first time he told how he had thrown New York's fashionable Lake George colony into confusion 30 summers ago by means of a large, gleaming sea serpent. He confessed that he had fabricated the serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears...
...Alton Smahl was born in New York, in 1898. In 1921, he was graduated from Fordham Medical College, became an interne at Englewood, N. J. After a year of work for U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Alton A. Smahl set up an office of his own in Manhattan, began practice as an otolaryngologist. He inserted the initial A. to make his name sound better. He married, became the father of a daughter, spent a year in Vienna doing post-graduate work...