Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaping from their seats two white clad internes picked up a stretcher and rushed into the Bureau of the Union State Political Department, notorious as the "Cheka" or O. G. P. U., the dread police-spy service of the Soviet Union...
Married. Ilse Schumann-Heink, eldest granddaughter of Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink; to Captain Ferdinand A. Hirgy, state vice-commander of the American Legion in Wisconsin; at Elcho...
...Ariz., after both had obtained Mexican divorces. Questioned by the police in 1923 concerning the mysterious murder of his friend Dorothy Keenan, Mr. Daugherty was shortly thereafter committed as an inebriate to Stamford Hall Sanitarium, on the petition of his wife, and in 1925 was sent to the Ohio State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. In 1926, he was released...
...Milwaukee, Charles Younggreen is a social lion as well as a Lion; he belongs to half the clubs in the state and is vice commander of his post of the American Legion. When Milwaukee plans a welcome, as to an aviator, Charles Younggreen superintends it with pride and efficiency; "Milwaukee's Grover Whalen" is a sobriquet of which he is proud. His house is a show place; his wife is a charming woman; he plays bad golf very well; he has lots of money and lots...
...with the widower of the murdered lady-friend. Lando barely escaped the island where he had abetted the riots. Sicily was put under martial law, and the old Garibaldino Mauro, frenzied by the impertinence of upstart socialists, fared forth with his medals and pistols of 1860 to assist the state troopers. These unimaginative souls mistook him for a rioter, and shot him in a street fight...