Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...
...confused with white-whiskered old Charles Evans Hughes (no kin), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
Died. James J. Campbell. 62, Pittsburgh steelman; at Pasadena, Calif. His first job: painting cannon balls in front of the Washington arsenal. His last: vice president of Carnegie Steel Co. He was no kin of President James A. Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...five years he was District Attorney of Los Angeles Asa Keyes (pronounced Kize; no kin to New Hampshire's Senator Keyes in col. 1) sent 4,030 men and women to California prisons for every variety of crime. Last week he joined this criminal company himself, entered San Quentin Prison as a convicted bribe-taker, a betrayer of public trust...
...steel ship- there were no rivet-heads studding her sleek sides. All her plates had been arc-welded, with an estimated saving of 25% in construction costs, of 20% in weight. Her designer: Richard F. Smith, 30. Builders: Charleston Dry Dock & Machine Co. (under Vice President Charles V. Boy kin...