Word: cartland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was too much for young, hardworking Conservative Ronald Cartland, member for King's Norton, part of Mr. Chamberlain's native Birmingham, who has defended the Prime Minister in many a speech. "Profoundly disturbed," he did what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more...
...North Carolina's Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell whether they could legally raid the quarters of a suspect. The Attorney General said no. Regardless, they appealed to the police chief of Chapel Hill, got a warrant, staged a night raid on the apartment of tall, slight Douglas Cartland, graduate in the class of 1934, Phi Beta Kappa, potent ping pong player. Caught with evidence of his work, Cartland typed out a confession, reeled off a list of his clients. Brilliant, with a phenomenal memory, Cartland had supported himself and widowed mother through his cheating service. With...