Word: glenwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Louise Vinci Querra, "Queen of Nebraska Bootleggers"; and Earl Manning, onetime dry agent; in Glenwood, Iowa. Agent Manning arrested Queen Querra, fell in love, joined her racket, was arrested, languished in Leavenworth, was recently released...
Some such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...
...Leach's advertising agent, placing advertisements for Glenwood Ranges, wrote as follows to the Boston Review: "It is Mr. Leach's understanding that in addition to this advertising you will publish in your news columns a story concerning his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Governor and also publish additional items each week until the primaries...
Manufacturer Leach replied: ". . . The Glenwood product advertising is placed through an agency and I know nothing about it. We have followed the same procedure in placing Glenwood goods advertising as we have in the past." He said his advertising agent had evidently been "very silly" and that he had "vigorously called him to account...
...Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship has been awarded to T. W. Torrey, of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a graduate of the University of Denver, who will study Zoology in the Graduate School...