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Engaged. Lyle E. Womack, divorced husband of Flyer Ruth Elder (now Mrs. Walter Camp Jr.); to Ella Bisset, Minneapolis socialite. Said he: "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than to tame a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Ella Blake watched Manhattan crowds going to see The Last Mile, smash hit play based on a document written by her son Robert the week before he was electrocuted in a Texas prison for murder last year. She did not enter the theatre. Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo News-Globe (TIME, March 17) had sent her Manhattan to claim, royalties on the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Next day such potent prohibitors as Francis Scott McBride, chief lobbyist for the Anti-Saloon League, Clarence True Wilson, chief lobbyist for the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, and Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, president of the W.C. T.U., packed into the committee room to hear approvingly other witnesses defend the Dry cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Defense | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

TIME'S source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to a Communist mass meeting (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Mrs. Ella E. Morris rented rooms in a house located in a section supposedly restricted to one-family dwellings. Neighbors complained that Mrs. Morris was cheapening the neighborhood, took court action. Mrs. Morris retaliated with a large sign posted on the front of her house: "FOR SALE OR FOR RENT TO COLORED PEOPLE ONLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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