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Word: shelleys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned plane for a month's vacation in Central America. As a parting gesture he called on his Republican foe, District Attorney Carl B. Shelley of Dauphin County (Harrisburg), to arrest and try him instanter. Mr. Shelley ignored the invitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Head Examined | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Earle & friends won the primaries.Mr. Margiotti & friends lost. Instead of making peace with GovernorEarle, like Senator Joe Guffey, Mr. Margiotti went to his Republican cronies in Dauphin County (Harrisburg) and got District Attorney Carl B. Shelley to start a Grand Jury investigation of the Earle regime. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 6-to-1 Republican, refused to halt this move. Governor Earle then turned to the General Assembly, Democratic by 150-to-53 in the House, 34-to-16 in the Senate. A special session would cost Pennsylvania's taxpayers anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 but Governor Earle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Earle's Brawl | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Barnard Associates were founded to "emulate John Barnard of the Class of 1700, who was fond of good books and did what he could for Harvard." This is the fourth publication of the society which has already issued facsimiles of the Shelley Notebook and one of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," both owned by the College Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crane's "Hazelford Sketch Book" Published by Press | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Near Clarksdale. Miss., a colored sharecropper named James Wiggins and his commonlaw wife. Ethel Davis, owed $175 to their white boss, Joseph Shelley Decker, who was afraid they might decamp without paying. What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after he had been summoned to the 200-acre Decker farm by Sharecropper Wiggins. Said Sheriff Dogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debt Collection | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Early this morning I went to the house, up two flights, paid two lires and was toured about by a young Italian girl who very carefully explained to me that Keats was a great poet; and so was Shelley and now this was a memorial library to them both all made possible through the generosity of English and American admirers. And now would I sign the book? Many people have signed it who have become great since. Then I seemed to hear the words...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

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