Word: mckeown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That point settled, the Court then decided that illegitimate children should not be counted. This was bad news for Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, five of whose nine children were born after she separated from her husband. By no means abashed was Mrs. Clarke's attorney, C. R. McKeown who warmly contends that the fact that Mrs. Clarke has been married at all makes a difference. Said he: "After all, the children were not born out of wedlock. ... I may appeal from the decision." Mrs. Clarke was resigned, declared: "It was just a gamble anyway...
Last week in a run-off primary Representatives Tom D. McKeown and James V. McClintic also lost what, as practical politicians, they prized next to life itself-their House seats...
...significance of burly, red-faced Tom McKeown's defeat was that his successor is likely to be unique among House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has piercing black eyes and a mop of flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians...
...worst thing he has had to deal with lately has been the amebic dysentery which Representatives Tom D. McKeown of Oklahoma, William E. Hess of Ohio and John C. Lehr of Michigan contracted in Chicago last October while studying bankruptcy receiverships there. Kenneth Romney, House sergeant-at-arms, who was with the Representatives, also caught the disease. Dr. Calver sent them all to Naval Hospital in Washington for a full course of treatment...
...Music who intend to build an outdoor Temple of Music for the World's Fair (TIME, Dec. 26). Donations came in so slowly that she asked her friends to give her wedding presents in cash, which she would use to hire a professional money-campaigner. Campaigner John McKeown, advised by his brother Mitchell McKeown, managing director of Chicago's Unemployment Fund, was hard at work for the Friends last week. At a big organization dinner at the Drake Hotel, Frederick Stock, who played the viola in the Chicago Symphony before he became its conductor, gravely tucked his instrument...