Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Miami, where he had arrived from South America, Playboy Richard Joshua Reynolds, 26, hurried home to Winston-Salem, closeted himself with family lawyers who told him what they knew about the death of his brother Smith, for which Smith's widow, the former Libby Holman, and his best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer...
Died. Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, youngest son and an heir of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (tobacco), husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (Little Shows, Three's A Crowd); of "a gunshot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown;" in Winston-Salem...
...Joshua McClennenn '35, J. F. McLeod '35, K. W. McMahan '33, H. R. Magill '35, W. G. Marcoux '35, I. L. Pavlo '35, W. L. Rumsey '34, Oscar Sutermeister '32, R. K. Thorndike '35, T. W. Thorndike '35, F. A. Vogel '32, K. M. Warner '33, F. L. Wesson '35, C. T. Wing '35, and L. A. Wolford...
Died. Willis Joshua Bailey, 77, former governor of Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank, onetime Congressman-at-large (1899-01) and Governor of Kansas (1903-05); of heart trouble; in Kansas City, Mo. Before his marriage, he was publicized as "Kansas' most eligible bachelor," received 2,000 proposals by mail...
...Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...