Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guiding them was Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, a hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found...
...days more he tried to implicate others, then "cracked" again. He had done the whole thing, all alone, to "get things" for his wife. But he had not murdered the child; that was accidental, he said. Skeegie "must have smothered" while he was quieting him with handkerchiefs. ¶Chief Hoover had Prisoner McCall spirited to the 19th floor of Miami's skyscraper jail to prevent his lynching by an angry Miami...
Politely knocking at the portals of public service for some time have been James Henry Roberts Cromwell of Somerville, N. J. and his pretty young wife, Doris ("Richest Girl") Duke, who gave $5,000 to re-elect New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore, $50,000 to help re-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week their knock was answered. Governor Moore appointed 25-year-old Mrs. Cromwell, who made a tour of southern resettlement projects last year with Mrs. Roosevelt, to be a member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise...
...although every nation has its representative, the fighting is not on nationalistic lines. "No rich man," says Jules Bertillon, "is a patriot, no rich man a friend. They have all only got one fatherland-the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend-the mistress they're promising to divorce their wife for." Some of the spiders...
...whining customers' man, who, coached by his coldblooded, canny wife, worms his way into the bank, plays the Black Widow that finally gobbles up the overconfident Bertillon...