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Word: bartow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the appointing committee were Bartow Kelly '40, chairman, Edward T. Ladd '38, and Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39. Kelly, who headed last year's group will direct the 1941 body until after midyear examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. CHOOSES 12 FOR FRESHMAN COMMITTEE | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

Chunky 36-year-old "R.S." Evans is deeply tanned from the polo he plays frequently and well, when. not traveling on business. Born in Bartow, Ga., he went to work in the Maxwell Motors assembly line at 15, at 18 started night school in the Georgia School of Technology, was in the used car trade for himself by 1924, went broke in the Florida boom collapse in 1926. Standing penniless on a Miami street corner, he saw a man trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: January First | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Cabinet members who will conduct the meetings are Edward T. Ladd '38, Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39, Gordon Gilkey '39, and Bartow Kelly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips Brooks House Will Choose '41 Men for Position | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...first trial, held under a change of venue in the little town of Bartow about 48 miles east of Tampa, was a broad education to Northern reporters, particularly representatives of the radical Press. Wires were tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Body & Limbs | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...appeal the Florida State Supreme Court threw out the convictions on the ground that evidence on a conspiracy count had been admitted after the conspiracy count was dropped. A second trial, this time on charges of second-degree murder, opened in Bartow last fortnight. Following the dictates of the higher court Judge Dewell ruled out all evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Body & Limbs | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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