Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murderer Arthur Miller stole the warden's son's clothing, dieted from 180 to 130 pounds, fit himself into the grey linen suit, blue shirt, sport belt, black & white sport shoes, clapped the golf hat on his head, seized a golf stick, sauntered to freedom. After a holiday in Davenport, Iowa, clever Convict Miller borrowed an automobile, started for Chicago. At Dixon, 111., he came upon something he had never seen before or during his twelve years in prison?a red traffic light. He gave it one contemptuous kok and drove merrily on. That night in the Dixon jail "Arthur...
...spectacular tortures, holy stigmata or supernatural visions marked the life of Mother Seton; but she was gentle and pious, and as brilliant an organizer as St. Teresa who founded the Discalced Carmelite Order. One of her biographers (Father Joseph B. Code of St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa) says that she "inaugurated practically every work of Catholic social welfare in the U. S." Soon after her death U. S. Catholics perceived in her an eminent candidate for the Church's great posthumous tribute: sainthood. Though eight residents of North America have been canonized (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), there...
...interviewers. When the specialists get through, society will have their detailed records. For each there will be still and moving pictures; talkies and phonograph records; sculptures of hands, face, bust and other body parts; finger prints; medical history; family case cards; minutiae of every sort which Dr. Charles Benedict Davenport has been accumulating in the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor...
Divorced. Mrs. Florence Davenport Rice Smith, comely daughter of Sportswriter Grantland Rice; from Sydney Andrew Smith. Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Charge: cruelty. Mrs. Smith denied reports that she planned to marry Artist Peter Arno (see above...
Freshmen--No. 1, S. E. Davenport; No. 2, G. H. Hartford; No. 3, W. K. Porter; No. 4, Lawrence Freeburn; No. 5, W. S. Emmet: No. 6, Robert Grant...