Word: elam
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Last week Florida Democrats held a special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews...
...Plumas County, Calif., acquitted of murdering her Indian husband with an ax, Squaw Emma Elam told the judge she wanted her ax back. Given it, she asked the court to clean off the bloodstains, sharpen the blade. Said the judge, refusing her request: "Such crust...
Died. Carl S. Carlton, 53, farmer brother of Florida's Governor Doyle Elam Carlton; by a charge of buckshot fired, while deer-hunting, by his brother Alton Carlton. ricocheting off a cypress tree full into his face; in the Everglades near Immokalee...
...noon last week were 50 of the nation's Biggest Businessmen. The occasion: to collect the first $1.000,000 of a $2,750,000 fund to build and endow a new swimming pool, dormitories, infirmary, library, auditorium for the Shanghai American School. Among those interested in what Principal Elam J. Anderson had to say were: Martin Egan, staff member of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mo-tormaker Walter Percy Chrysler; Herbert Lee Pratt, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and his Vice President Howard Ellsworth Cole; President George Christian Scott of U. S. Steel Products...
...first cities to be founded after the waters prevailed upon the earth and Jahveh ordered Noah and his entourage into the ark, has given up more of its interments: the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition found the traces of the tribe of the Elamites, descendants of Elam, son of Shem, grandson of Noah. The Elamites had a fearsome custom of burying alive the attendants of a dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that burial customs...