Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, Conn...
Died. Edward Milligan, 74. president of Phoenix Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. since 1913; in Philadelphia...
Died. William Gillette, Sr. oldtime actor-playwright (Sherlock Holmes); of pulmonary hemorrhage; in Hartford, Conn...
They sent out an eight-State alarm. At last in Milford, Conn., police appeared at a small Divine "heaven" where a Negro called "Simon Peter" attempted to bar their way. As they later remarked, they "roughed up Simon Peter a bit." One of them descended to the cellar, found Father Divine vainly seeking to "invisibilize" himself behind the furnace. "Peace!" he quavered. "I'll go with you and I'll waive extradition." The Messiah was bundled off to police headquarters in Manhattan. It was after midnight, too late for his three attorneys to arrange bail, so Father Divine...
...have friends in the scattered missions of the Near and Far East but at home is many an enemy. One of the oldest enemies is U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings. Mr. Cummings' enmity dates to the early 19203 when he was practicing law in Stamford. Conn. At that time he took a legal trouncing in a suit against Alcoa. Later his law firm represented Baush Machine Too! Co. in its prolonged efforts to recover from Alcoa $9,000,000 in triple damages for as an impressive a list of unfair trade practices as ever brightened a docket...