Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Manhattan, Judge Francis Valente referred to Minot Frazier Jelke's "greed, wanton self-debasement, venal exploitation and progressive debauchery," and sentenced him to three to six years in Sing Sing for pimping. There was a silver lining: if he behaves himself, pudgy "Mickey" Jelke will get out not long after his 25th birthday in November 1954, when he will inherit his $1,000,000 oleomargarine fortune...
...seams ran out; the coke ovens south of town were abandoned. It drowsed through the 20th century without sewers, street lights (except the one over the village square), or even a local government. But Perryopolis had something to speculate and gossip about-the odd life of Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, last daughter of the town's rich family...
Carrier Warfare. Mrs. Frazier left Perryopolis as a young woman in 1887, and only returned once in all the 61 years before she died in 1948. But tales of her eccentricities drifted back to local ears. After her first husband, a prominent Philadelphia physician, died in 1917, she developed a phobia against germs. When she was ill, she made a practice of renting a whole floor at New York's Doctors Hospital to keep other germ carriers at a distance. She bought dozens of pairs of white gloves, wore them constantly, saw to it that each was dipped...
Hungry Township. For all her strange whims and strange fears and her long life in big cities, Mrs. Frazier never forgot Perryopolis, "where I was born and lived, where my father and mother . . . and my grandfather and grandmother lived ..." She asked to be buried there, and when she died five years ago, she left the town $1,500,000-roughly $1,000 for every man, woman & child who lived there. For years there were doubts that Perryopolis would be able to get it. First, six of Mrs. Frazier's cousins contested the will, and the contest failed. Secondly, Perryopolis...
...Republicans in the Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee assignments and busted them to the bottom of the seniority list on their previously assigned committees. The four were Wisconsin's Bob La Follette, Iowa's Smith Brookhart, North Dakota's Lynn Frazier and Edwin Ladd. All had worked for La Foilette's election as President on the Progressive ticket, opposing Calvin Coolidge. The best guess is that Maverick Morse will be similarly corralled in 1953, i.e., will be bumped to the bottom of the Armed Services and Labor Committees, on which...