Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to print the actual photograph of the execution in any event." But the Graphic's editors did their best to make the full-page picture look as much as possible like a repetition of the Daily News's exploit of printing an actual photograph of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair in 1928. The Snyder picture was taken by a tiny camera strapped to a newsman's ankle. Last week prison guards carefully examined the ankles and wristwatches of every witness to the Crowley execution...
...Immediate beneficiary is the Hershey Industrial School, where 350 boys and young men learn useful trades. The school has 500.000 of the company's 706,520 common shares held in trust for it. On the directorate which voted the raise were Cousin Ezra F. Hershey and John E. Snyder, onetime postman. When in 1886 Founder Hershey began making caramels in a little alley, Postman Snyder at first had difficulty in finding him. Later, however, he often dropped in to nibble and advise, becoming Mr. Hershey's vice president...
James A. ("Jim") Reed was in court in Jefferson City, Mo., arguing the $1,000,000 suit of the wealthy Snyder Brothers against Union Electric Light & Power Co. when a whispered message interrupted him. He strode to the bench, asked to be excused on urgent business, hurried by automobile to Kansas City. There he learned that his good friend Mrs. Nelly Quinlan Donnelly had been kidnapped with her Negro chauffeur. Onetime Senator Reed was shown a letter just received from Mrs. Donnelly by her husband Paul...
Having already condemned many a farm, torn down a county seat, reinterred 2,850 corpses, last week Union Electric Light & Power Co. found itself involved in a seven-figure lawsuit. The wealthy Snyder brothers of Kansas City - Robert, Leroy and Kenneth - wanted $1,000,000 in damages because the lake floods the edge of their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from...
From Miss Elizabeth Frances Sybil Stuart of Bath, England, direct descendant of William Penn, the last remnant of the Penn family's holdings in Pennsylvania was bought by Henry Steinman Snyder, onetime vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. In purchasing Green Pond, near Farmersville, Pa., Mr. Snyder discovered that 3.69-acres of the pond were still owned by the Penns, traced ownership to Miss Stuart, had a copy of the original deed sent...