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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...