Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspect was a Negro named Arthur Collick. Two days later two civilian possemen spotted him emerging from a swamp. With him were two women. The posse caught the women, but Collick escaped, plunging back into the cypress growth. The prisoners were Lillian Blake, Collick's common-law wife, and her 14-year-old daughter Martha. The two were taken to the county jail at Snow Hill, locked...
...jailhouse and let them see that Hall had told the truth. That was what he did. Still the mob did not disperse. Someone suggested that they get the women out and question them. They rushed to a window and began to hacksaw the bars. Inside, Lillian Blake and her daughter began to pray...
Meanwhile the mob had congealed in Stockton's four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...Lillian and Martha Blake did not mind being held as witnesses. They grinned with pleasure over their new shoes...
...whole week ($1,000) to the Finns. Other pro-Finland stars and producers rushed to support Miss Bankhead, castigate Mr. Shumlin. Somebody pointed out that Herman Shumlin was the only Broadway producer advertising in the Communist Daily Worker. It seemed that Mr. Shumlin had almost no friends except Leftish Lillian Hellman, who writes some of the best plays he produces. John Golden, John Shubert, Eddie Dowling, other members of Herbert Hoover's Amusement Division sneered: "The Communists in show business . . . are up to their old tricks. ... So we have the nauseating spectacle of a house divided when as a matter...