Word: bluffton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LENNA MAE GARA Bluffton, Ohio...
When he got out, Gara found a job as history teacher and dean of men at Ohio's small, Mennonite Bluffton College. For 26-year-old Larry Gara and his wife, Lanna Mae, a new life opened up. But last fall his conscience dropped him into hot water again. When one of Bluffton's students refused to register for peacetime military training, Gara and his wife hustled...
...Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register." Larry Gara drew another jail sentence of 18 months, which he has appea...
Died. Princess Henrietta Guerard Pignatelli, sixtyish, Bluffton, S.C. shopkeeper's daughter who became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S. by marrying a grocery fortune (A. & P.'s Edward V. Hartford, who left her $200 million when he died in 1922) and then became a princess by marrying Prince Guido Pignatelli in 1937; after long illness; in Wyckoff...
Even though 20 First Presbyterian talents had not yet been heard from (and might perhaps be hidden in the earth), there was no weeping or gnashing of teeth in Bluffton; the Rev. Mr. Bigelow, less stern than the Biblical lord, had asked that the returns be made anonymously...