Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
...most were two reporters from the Le Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend named Ed Roach...
...Knox was arrested on the charge of forging her mother's endorsement to pension checks, but she refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...
...himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts of lace and a necklace made of famed Rumanian black amber. Liberally dispersed were other gifts to the royal family-costumed dolls to the princesses, an amber cigaret holder to King George, an amber necklace to Queen Elizabeth...
...policy against aggressor nations-was Sir Robert Yan-sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...