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Fierce-Arrow is that rarity among corporations, a grass widow. It was married to Studebaker in 1928 but during Depression both parties might well have pleaded nonsupport. Divorce came in August 1933 when Studebaker receivers sold Fierce-Arrow to a group of Buffalo businessmen for $1,000,000. Nine-month sales in 1935 were 583, far behind the 1,399 sales for the same 1934 period...
When medals and decorations which had been showered on him by cities and States began turning up in pawn shops, Acosta explained they had been "stolen." In 1930 his wife had him jailed for nonsupport. When that failed to regenerate him, he was sentenced to six months for abandonment. On his release he was welcomed with open arms by his wife and two sons. Said the warden: ''He was the best man we ever had in jail here...
Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member...
...Louis, Wilma McClain Kirby, 13, divorced her 18-year-old husband. The child charged nonsupport. The boy replied that his wife had nagged...
...more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma Swift Hammerstein, 51, third wife of the late Oscar Hammerstein, to sue Arthur Hammerstein, her unfriendly stepson, for nonsupport. Four years ago when she was found guilty of vagabondage, Mr. Hammerstein offered to support her for life if she would leave the city (TIME, June 16, 1930). Mrs. Hammerstein said that after she went to France he sent only $300, informed her she would get no more, thereby forced...