Word: minas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frosty morning in January 1932 Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, sport-loving widow of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, and her elderly white maid, Mina Buckner, were found hacked to death in their beds on Mrs. Ilsley's estate at Middleburg, Va. Wanted for the murder was George Crawford, Negro chauffeur whom Mrs. Ilsley had discharged on suspicion of stealing her liquor (TIME, May 8). A Virginia Grand Jury indicted Crawford but the police could not find him. Last January he was picked up in Boston on a petty larceny charge...
...Mina Irvine, secretary to Chairman O'Connor, and Mr. Herbermann, looking for "some easy money" speculated jointly in Florida land. When Department of Justice agents arrived to search her files, this elderly Government employe destroyed all records of her transactions...
...Jorgenson, C. Francis Ladd, Doris Benson, John E. Bird, Barbara Evers, R. A. Benson, Jr., Reed E. Bartlett, Charles W. Perry, Sidney Gleason, 2nd, Ruth Hussey, W. A. Frances, Mary Ettling, Evelyn Hassman, T. Gordan Bingham, Jr., Dorothy Hughes, F. F. Silver, Robert Schafer, Natalie Peterson, Alber Flower, Jr., Mina Flower, Beechman, L. Fairbank, Margaret Page, Dorothea MacMillen, H. Myron, Jr., G. S. Worcester, N. Shipman, Jay Ricks, Miss J. White...
...hunting socialites of Loudoun County, Va. awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen...
...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...