Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Abigail Stapleford Allen Lott, 21; from George M. Lott Jr.. 24. Davis Cup tennis player with whom she eloped to Elkton, Md. last October; in Philadelphia.
Ellsworth Vines Jr. of Pasadena and Frederick J. Perry of London were the two most interesting players in the National Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club last week. Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, has been the sensation of this year's early...
Public feeling in Buncombe County, N. C., was high against Wallace B. Davis, president of the collapsed (Nov. 20) Central Bank & Trust Co. of Asheville. So a jury from neighboring Haywood County was called in to try him. Co-defendants in the case were famed Col. Luke Lea of Nashville...
Finally the jury returned. Foreman Hurst Justice reported on four counts.* The Leas were found guilty on all four, Mr. Davis on three, Mr. Charlet on none.
That afternoon Judge Barnhill, his pale face grave as the Law, his voice almost a whisper, his hands trembling, read his penalties. Col. Lea's wife gripped her husband's hand so tightly that her knuckles were white. Their daughter, Mary Louise, 7, who had spent the weeks romping through...