Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frances Everett Fletcher, widow of Lucian Fletcher, died, aged 87. She was survived by one daughter in Cincinnati, two daughters in Charleston, three great-granddaughters in Latonia, Ky., all the descendants of Lucian Fletcher of Lynchburg and all pure white. In 1932 in Chicago died Maria Fletcher Turner, Lucian Fletcher's chocolate-colored daughter by the late slave Mary. Of all his progeny, it turned out that Maria had done the best for herself in the way of worldly goods. She had married an enterprising blackamoor named Sheadrick B. Turner who had represented Chicago's Black Belt...
This left as the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 a female impersonator: Thomas H. Robinson Jr., who snatched Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville, Ky. in 1934. Said Director Hoover: "It's only a matter of time. . . ." It was a matter of a few-days before G-men captured Robinson in Glendale, Calif. He had doffed the women's clothes in which he had frequently eluded his pursuers, disguised himself instead with a mustache. On Robinson his captors found $4,200 of the $50,000 Stoll ransom...
Welch of the Shanghai area; John W. Robinson of Southern Asia ; Eben Samuel Johnson of Africa; Frederick Thomas Keeney of Atlanta; Matthew Wesley Clair (Negro) of Covington, Ky. ; George Amos Miller of Central & South America...
State Tax Commission of Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky...
...Louisville, Ky. last week, staff members of the Courier-Journal and Times heard news they had been anxiously awaiting. Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and owner of the two papers, had found and appointed a successor to onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge...