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...broader discussion of the reasons for national rearmament came a new high-policy phrase: "Continental solidarity." The President confirmed the intimation previously voiced by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (TIME, Nov. 14): that one object of U. S. rearmament is to implement the good-neighborly understanding achieved in 1936 at the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires and about to be refreshed at Lima, Peru...
...knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
...year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...
...garden at night, police took spades and unearthed an old kitchen cabinet. Inside, wrapped in a black shroud, were the remains of Mrs. Lucinda Trow, buried about six months. Then police reported that they had found in Abel, la. a decree, dated 1934, purporting to divorce Maybelle Trow from Sumner Knox...
...Knox was arrested on the charge of forging her mother's endorsement to pension checks, but she refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...