Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often politics not Law decides whether a Governor extradites a man wanted for trial in another State. Last week Law asserted its rights in two distant States. In California, Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb ruled Governor Frank F. Merriam had no option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East...
Died. Parmely Webb Herrick, 55 banker (Hayden Stone & Co.), orchid- raiser, son of the late great U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick of cerebral hemorrhage, in Manhattan where he had moved three years ago from Cleveland. In Paris in 1927, when his father welcomed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Parmely Herrick lent the hero a suit of clothes which was returned to him, six months later, neatly pressed...
...members are: E. Alston Blackwell; John L. Donnell; Robert J. Glaser; R. Stuart Hoyt; Cranston E. Jones; Christian M. Laurlitzen, 2nd.; John H. Loeb; Lloyd Mills, Jr.; Phill G. Neal; Joseph C. Pesden, Jr.; Alfred W. Putnam; Brooks Ryder; Templeton Smith; Donald M. Thurber; D. Willson Webb; Roger L. Werner; and William P. Young...
...Chick Webb at Eliot House...
Eliot House's dinner dance at 7:15 o'clock boasts the music of Chick Webb's orchestra, the singing of Elia Fitzgerald, and dancing until 2:00 o'clock. The dining room has been specially decorated and the preparations for dancing under the stars on the terrace have given the dance its name, "The Terrace Dance...