Word: barnett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week collected gaping curiosity seekers and frightened neighbors. Outside, a posse headed by U. S. Marshal Robert P. Clark had waited ten days to take peaceful possession of the house in the name of the U. S. Government. Inside. Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnett, onetime wife of "World's Richest Indian'' Jackson Barnett, sat waiting too. Marshal Clark said he would enter the house without violence. Mrs. Barnett said she would keep him out with knives & guns. And if they failed, threatened Mrs. Barnett, she had enough dynamite in the house...
...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
...Barnett ("The value of a man's service to society is measured by the number of jobs he has provided for his fellow men") must have been thinking of Frank Hague. How we all have been maligning Jersey's "Public Benefactor...
...QUENTIN PRISON, CAL-Forty convicts in three San Quentin Prison work shops went on a sitdown strike late today. It was reported the prisoners struck after a leisure privilege had been denied them. Barnett House, secretary to Warden Court Smith, said the men went on strike over a new regulation effective two days...
Coming from new Haven are all 27 Yale coaches, directors, and ahletic impressaries, including Paul Barnett, administrative officer of the Y.A.A. Harvard's Bill Bingham will be on hand to keep things under control, however...