Word: thackers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warden, loomed up & down its aisles with the collection plate, left it a $500,000 endowment in his will. Another is social service work, eloquently represented in such liberals as Dr. Karl Reiland and its present pastor, Elmore McNeill McKee. Another is its 72-year-old barytone soloist, Harry Thacker Burleigh, a Negro...
...Nancy Seay Lee, 17, died in Oklahoma City General Hospital, whither she had been taken "about dead." Frank Lee University of Oklahoma football player! to whom she had been secretly married! said she had been aborted by Dr. Richard E. Thacker...
...Roach told County Attorney Lewis R. Morris that his wife had died after an abortion by Dr. Thacker...
...Thacker, an M. D. and onetime Army lieutenant, was also charged with murder. He fled. With his wife and instrument case he got into a sedan and disappeared in the direction of Mexico...
...story told last year by Gaston B. Means, shifty sleuth, in The Strange Death of President Harding (TIME, March 31, 1930). Actual author of this tale, wherein Mrs. Harding was supposed to have poisoned her husband as a result of the Nan Britton affair, was May Dixon Thacker of Norfolk, Va. In an article in Liberty last week Mrs. Thacker repudiated the whole Means story, lamented that she had been badly duped. Three months ago, she said, she was told by "one of the highest officials in Washington" that "it was positively a physical impossibility" for Sleuth Means ever...