Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ashley also discovered that Sheriff Mclntosh was dealing sternly with two people who resented this largely connubial personnel policy. Bernie Scale of Booneville, source of the original tip, had drawn 30 days in jail for drunkenness. Nedra Gabbard, twice divorced, unemployed and the mother of five, was arrested for driving up a hill too slowly. Both had applied for jobs that went to officials' relatives. Mclntosh dismissed the two as ne'er-do-wells unworthy of public employment. Of Mrs. Gabbard he added: "Besides, she doesn't even have...
...poorest. Its 5,023 people scrape by on a per capita income of $500 a year, mostly from tobacco or moonshining. Unemployment runs at 24%. No trains or buses stop in Booneville, the county seat, and the people are largely left alone in their poverty. Then, in November, Frank Ashley of the Louisville Courier-Journal came to town...
...federal appropriation to create jobs was being spent. Nobody argued with the need for such funds, but a few local citizens thought that County Judge Elijah Campbell, Owsley's chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county...
...great performers of the 1920's who had been presumed dead for years. It was during these trips that members of the Ramblers found Roscoe Holcomb. Doc Boggs and Eck Robertson. Another urban performer and folklorist. Ralph Rinzler discovered Doc Watson while searching for old-time Tom Ashley...
...PERSUADERS (ABC). "I'm Brett to my friends, but you may call me darling." Lady Brett Ashley speaking? No, Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore, TV's engaging former Saint), who is the Oxbridge playboy half of The Persuaders. His co-persuader is Danny Wilde, a new-rich high roller from The Bronx (Tony Curtis), and the two of them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch...