Word: clara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clara Driscoll, 58, is the restless, magnetic daughter of a pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which...
...Clara Driscoll and E. B. Germany have one thing very much in common: they are co-chairmen of the Texas Garner-for-President Club (five rooms, nine employes in Dallas). Proceeding on Garner's friend Emil Hurja's theory that early leaders stay on top, last week Mr. Germany and Mrs. Driscoll unmistakably pushed chaparral Jack Garner into the 1940 Presidential race† on a national scale. Over their signatures the T. G. F. P. Club appealed to 40,000 ranking Democrats throughout...
Divorced. Edward ("Mickey") Walker, 37, onetime world's middleweight and welterweight boxing champion; by Clara Frances Walker, 27; in Newark...
...Americanism began on board as soon as the Santa Clara pushed out of Panama. Lanky, ascetic Father John F. O'Hara, President of Notre Dame University and chairman of the delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours...
...society sent to India one of the most famed missionaries of all time, Isabella Thoburn. For her it named Asia's first college for women-in Lucknow, India. It dispatched to the East the first U. S. woman doctor, Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, spending some $1,500,000 a year on 5,500 missionaries, Bible women and other workers in 17 lands, is the largest U. S. organization of its kind. Last week, not without some pangs and misgivings, it faced the prospect of losing its identity-in the impending merger...