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Word: armon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This was the scene as convicted kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel were sentenced in Oklahoma City. Left to right: Albert Bates (in white shirt), Harvey Bailey, Armon Shannon, R. G. Shannon, and Mrs. R. G. Shannon; all received life sentences except Armon Shannon who received a ten-year suspended sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Boner of the Week | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...life sentences by Federal Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught on Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the kidnapping gang, and on R. L. Shannon & his wife Ora who hid Urschel on their Texas farm; a suspended sentence of ten years on the Shannons' 22-year-old son Armon; sentences of five years on Clifford Skelly and Edward Berman, Minneapolis money passers who handled part of the ransom. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly & his wife Kathryn, who had planned to plead guilty to their part in the kidnapping, changed their minds, entered pleas of not guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequels, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...associated with the defense attorneys for the Shannons, R. G. (Boss), his wife, Mrs. Ora L. Shannon, and Mr. Shannon's son, Armon Shannon. Just thought you would like to know that TIME served a real benefit in this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Oklahoma's Professor Frank Armon Melton noted in an airplane mosaic map of Horry County, S. C. some strangely regular furrows in the terrain. Later with Professor William Schriever (University of Oklahoma) he examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth's Core & Crust | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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