Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes, telling them that he had inherited an ancestral estate in Sweden on condition that he bring back a wife. Said Bror H. Petersen: "I married those girls looking for the right one and decided pretty quick that I didn't want to take Madeline or Loretta or Mabel back with me to the ancestral estates. But Lydia! Ah, there's the girl...
...speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought in $8,400 in cash and fines. That "the agents kept up the price of liquor. Their extortions, their free drinks and free meals forced the ordinary customer to pay twice what he should have paid...
...minutes. Miss Anastasia Scott, daughter of an Army sergeant stationed on the island, negotiated the distance in 47 minutes earlier in the week. In line with efforts of criminals who might attempt this means of escape, she started from the island. The feat was also accomplished by one Mabel Green as far back...
...midst of opening Rutgers University and its affiliate New Jersey College for Women, Dr. Robert Clarkson Clothier hurried off on a sorry errand. At Lake Placid, N. Y. had disappeared Mrs. Mabel Smith Douglass, 56, who retired as dean of New Jersey College for Women last spring because of ill health. She had apparently been rowing. Her capsized boat was found in shore. Grapplers and a diver hunted for the body. Dr. Clothier joined in the hunt, issued statements, then hurried back to Rutgers...
...speakers' table sat Mary Anderson, onetime immigrant girl and garment worker whom President Wilson appointed first Woman's Bureau Director of the Labor Department ; Genevieve Cline, first woman Federal judge (New York Customs Court) ; Annabel Mathews, first woman member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals; Mabel G. Reinecke, first woman collector of internal revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean W. Wittich, first woman state budget commissioner (Minnesota) ; Earlene White, first postmistress of the U. S. Capitol Building. At the Palmer House two days later another conclave of women began : the International Congress of Women of a Century...