Word: longstreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JAMES LONGSTREET: LEE'S WAR HORSE-H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad-University of North Carolina Press...
...Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose the battle that lost the South the Civil War? Many a Southerner, many a Northerner, has answered yes. Biographers Eckenrode and Conrad, in what is the first life of Longstreet ever written...
...face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between Judge Wilson and the Pearson Administration over disposition of the case of Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet. relict of famed Confederate General James Longstreet.* Widow Longstreet had had her driver's license revoked for parking her automobile on the wrong side of a street...
Dissipated Broker Harley Longstreet, to celebrate his engagement to Cherry Browne, gives a party at a New York Hotel. Longstreet's business-partner John De Witt, his wife and daughter, six other acquaintances attend. In spite of gin, the party is far from merry since nearly all the guests have particular reasons for hating their host. He invites them to continue the celebration at his West Englewood home. Because of a sudden shower they all board a crosstown trolley-car. Before they have gone two blocks Longstreet falls dead. In his coat pocket is found a ball of cork...
...enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder in South America keep the clues changing like chameleons. With the baffled sleuths, the reader is kept on pins & needles until Actor Lane, masking himself as dead Broker Longstreet, unmasks the murderer by a logical surprise...