Word: bayless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oddities of the dial system, large numbers of calls often backed up the jam so far that it tied up all the numbers beginning with the same two digits, giving busy signals on 1,000 telephones. Businessmen yowled. "We'll take it up with the FCC," said the Bayless Pharmacy...
...years ago near Baltimore a bus bearing Divine "angels" bound for Manhattan collided with the automobile of a Mrs. Nina I. Bayless of Aberdeen, Md. She brought suit against Father Divine and his lieutenant in whose name the bus was registered. A Maryland court awarded her a judgment of $6,000. Seeking to collect the money for Mrs. Bayless, Lawyer William W. Lesselbaum of Manhattan examined Father Divine and several "angels," could get none to admit that the cultist had any funds. Lawyer Lesselbaum began sleuthing. Last week in Manhattan he obtained an order to show cause why Father Divine...
...Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...