Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Theodore R. Middleton, 52, hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...
Bench & Bar. In Salt Lake City, the City Commission ruled that before City Judge Marcellus K. Snow could assume office, he would have to pay up his 37 back parking fines. In Harlan, Ky., Special Circuit Judge Cleon K. Calvert charged himself with public drunkenness, promptly ordered a $10 fine...
...HARLAN L. CLAPP...
...pretty big job. Four other men had had the job since last summer. The first one just quit, the second one was shot to death, the third one quit after his assistant was shot and wounded, the fourth one quit after being arrested for drunkenness. Evarts, in bloody Harlan County, is a dry town in a coal-mining district and Evarts bootleggers do a good, steady business...
Almost two years ago, big, amiable Robert Harlan Van Gelder quit his job as editor of the New York Times Book Review to write his first novel. On the strength of his name, an opening chapter and an outline of what was to come, his publishers had given him an unprecedented advance of $20,000. For all of three days (a long life for that kind of gossip), it was the talk of the trade...