Word: tillett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Airlines Captain Don Tillett bought the Sitton Septic Tank Co. of Chicago for $35,000 four years ago, increased the gross to almost $130,000 last year...
...families of the county had his throat slit from ear to ear by his wife, an outsider," says Rhyne. "The feeling in the community against the girl was extremely adverse. The attorney who defended her was an old string-tie lawyer named C. W. Tillett. I begged my father into letting me go to the trial one day. Tillett engaged in flamboyant arguments, told the jury how it was self-defense, and the girl was freed. The fact that this girl got justice in a place where people didn't like her made a tremendous impression...
Rhyne's chances of following after Lawyer Tillett were dim indeed: his family simply did not have enough money to send him to college. After his farm years of milking, plowing, picking cotton, bushy-haired Charlie Rhyne got a city job as a Western Union messenger boy in Charlotte. With $300 in savings in hand, he enrolled at Duke University. He had an early-morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver...