Word: lathrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peiping, a swift kick by a Japanese sentry found its mark last week in the stomach of attractive Miss Carol Lathrop, 18 (see cut), sister-in-law of a U. S. Marine captain stationed in North China. Weeping, but not greatly injured, Miss Lathrop then got a kick in the side, and a Mrs. Jones with whom she had been out for a stroll, received a powerful kick in the behind from another Japanese sentry. Vigorous protests by U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson T. Johnson were unavailing last week as Japanese officials maintained there had been "no violence." Sniffed...
...Miss Lathrop and Mrs. Jones were thus treated in just about the same way as were Chinese troops of the 2Qth Army commanded by Peiping General Sung Cheh-yuan this week. Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki grew tired of what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese...
...opportunity presented itself in the Lathrop, Calif, railroad station in the summer of 1889. By that time, the U. S. Attorney General had heard of Terry's threats, provided Justice Field with a bodyguard. He was U. S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, remembered as "a man of small stature but strong, left-handed and quick with a gun." He was standing by when Sarah Terry and her husband entered the station restaurant, spied Justice Field at a table. Mrs. Terry turned on her heel, left the room. The 66-year-old onetime Chief Justice of California's Supreme...
...raise his voice against Embezzler Cocklin at the time he was appointed Rutland's assistant city treasurer. With the Governor's errors the chief topic of conversation in the Green Mountain State, State's Attorney Bloomer dug deeper into the defalcation. In the months that followed, Lathrop H. Baldwin, treasurer of the bank, and two other officers were arrested for the part State's Attorney Bloomer said they played in hushing up the crime. Subsequently, charges against all but Bookkeeper Cocklin and Treasurer Baldwin were dropped on technicalities. Last month a jury pronounced Treasurer Baldwin guilty...
...crime. While harried Governor Smith was posting a $3,000 bond in Rutland's municipal court, Treasurer Baldwin was over in the county court being sentenced for his part in concealing the crime. Tear-choked County Judge Buttles imposed a fine of $400 against his old friend Lathrop Baldwin, gave him a suspended sentence of from six months to a year. First U. S. State executive to get so near jail since North Dakota's Langer was tried for levying on relief pay checks, Charles Smith pausing in his gubernatorial duties, said: "At the proper time and place...