Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoods . . . an airplane with a gilded nose tilting out of a cloud . . . a bed in a poor house, something dead on the bed . . . old checks, thumb-marked, rubber-stamped, checks for enormous sums made out in furtive or in precise or pompous or illiterate calligraphies to a person named "Stephenson". . . . A man hissing through the disinfected bars of a prison cell a word so soft that his listener could hardly hear him. "The swine . . . the swine...
Thomas H. Adams, a venerable, harmless-looking newspaperman living in Vincennes, Indiana, had known certain things for a long time. He has gone about getting documents and putting them into a black brief case. One David Curtis Stephenson was tried in Indianapolis for murdering a girl. While the trial went on, Mr. Adams's brief case grew fatter. He asked Governor Jackson to investigate some charges in support of which he, Mr. Adams, would be very glad to bring forward documents. The Governor did not seem to think an investigation was necessary. Mr. Adams then got himself appointed head...
...return for the political support of D. C. Stephenson, in the event I am elected mayor of Indianapolis, Ind., I promise not to appoint any person as member of the board of public works without they first have the indorsement of D. C. Stephenson...
Died. William Stephenson, Canadian aviator, whose neck was broken when his plane crashed into a windmill's arms; at Richmond Hill, Ontario...
Indiana. The Hoosier taste in corruption seems to have been comparatively dormant lately. Only one unsavory matter was before the Indiana public last week, namely, the apparent possibility that Governor Ed Jackson was planning to liberate his old political friend, D. C. Stephenson, onetime Ku Klux Grand Dragon, now residing in the state penitentiary, supposedly for life, for kidnaping, criminally assaulting and murdering a girl...