Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edgar G. Allen of Ridgewood, N. J. From the past he remembered a brother, sister, two sons. A son and brother came, identified him. From the present in Madisonville, Tenn., his wife, Mrs. Ted Morris, whom he had married in 1912, and a daughter Dolores, 13, came, met his blank stare, his statement that he had no idea where he had been for 22 years. (He had been an automobile mechanic & salesman.) Weeping, Mrs. Morris said, "He was a devoted husband and father. . . . This is almost unbelievable." Promising to take care of Dolores Morris, the Allens took Edgar G. Allen...
...week with a "Uchida Doctrine"-basically a pretension by the Japanese Government that they are competent to judge, without assistance from the West, what is best for the East. In Geneva last week Count Uchida's diplomats applied his principle. Acting on instructions from Tokyo, they refused point blank a formula for conciliation between China and Japan worked out by the League Committee of Nineteen who proposed to set up a League board of arbiters on which the U. S. and Russia would sit by invitation. Japan, so her Geneva diplomats said, remains convinced that she is right, refuses...
...Well, Mr. Drake, I'm George W. Blank and as a result of painstaking investigations I am convinced that you are a relative of the great Sir Francis Drake. I believe that you have a just claim to the spoils which Sir Francis accumulated through privateering operations in the 16th Century and which are held in trust in England, awaiting the appearance of rightful heirs...
...land's sake, Mr. Blank! What had I better do about...
Facts: Born Gerguson in 1890 in Vilna. Russia. Arrived with parents in U. S. in 1896. Longtime problem child of Manhattan charitable institutions. Bobbed up, his War years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff...