Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate, Federal spending, according to Mr. Roosevelt, who "planned it that way," produced one fairly good business year, 1936. In 1938, more than 11,000,000 men are again out of work and industrial indices are once more in the cellar...
...took the hint until last winter, when both Hebners ceased to be seen and a flock of buzzards was observed wheeling over their establishment. Neighbors then found that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several months old- was wearing a belt which looked like one that had belonged to Will Hebner. Authorities began to look for his wife, presently found her in Dade County, Fla. living with a man named Grover. Invited to return to Pocahontas to shed some light...
...first place, said Mrs. Hebner, the corpse in her cellar was not her husband's. In the second place, she had five husbands, among whom Will Hebner was distinguished chiefly for having married her first-in Clinton, Ill. in 1897, using the name of Samuel Sullivan. Asked where she had acquired her taste for polygamy, Mrs. Hebner readily obliged. Will Hebner had deserted her shortly after their wedding, remained away for some 30 years. On his return, by which time she had been a widow and a wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while...
...this point the jury remembered to ask Mrs. Hebner whose, if not her husband's, was the corpse in her cellar. To this Mrs. Hebner had no answer, but she gave the jury interesting ground for speculation by relating how one day, when she had found Will Hebner beating a cow to death with an iron bar, he had explained that it was the same bar he had used to beat the life out of a St. Louis storekeeper named William Hite on Nov. 10, 1935. It seemed that for Will Hebner a murder was of no more moment...
Cambridge was in the grip of a new Red scare yesterday as an investigation led by Mayor Lyons pointed to a Dunster Street cellar as the center of a Communist organization, propagandizing school children with the end of enrolling them in the Young Communists League. Police believed that Harvard undergraduates were among the leaders of the movement...