Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textile strike of Passaic, N J., was ended, and for the first time in ten and a half months men, women and children too, could shout without risk of having their heads broken by deputies of the sheriff. Or they might go to work, if they wished. Their Communistic fellows, as apt as the deputies at skull-cracking, would not hinder them...
...love all come hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back...
...pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupé. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public opinion was more perplexed than outraged. At the University of Texas, where she was earning an M. A. despite her full-time hours in Mr. Moody's office, Rebecca Bradley was called "serious-minded." Instead of "flapper bandit," Texans...
Whether or not Governor William W. ("Plain Bill") Brandon of Alabama had "openers"* will never be known, for at that particular moment last week a deputy sheriff and raiding party rudely interrupted the gubernatorial poker game at McQueen's Camp near Magnolia Springs, Ala. Behind the Governor's chair the intruders found a half case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail...
Married. Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer, of Paris, niece of Washington Singer, Sheriff of Wiltshire, Eng., and of Sir Mortimer Singer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, Eng.; to Sir Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...