Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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James A. Reed, longtime (1911-29) Senator from Missouri, invested $100,000 in the corner of 16th and Main Streets, Kansas City...
...Club Calais, and one of John W. Davis' nevviews ankled up a secret altar Satdee and then parted? . . . And that the late Andrew Carnegie's nevview Harry Sproul Jr. of the Racquet & Tennis Club, was welded in the shhh! manner to Annette Boudreau of Ottawa on May 16th? . . . A certain husband is marking time so he can trap his sqaw and her well-known pash in a public place and then disgrace them out loud...
...Congress: He lives at the expensive but not very fashionable Carlton Hotel on 16th St., often walks the two miles to the Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died...
...16th annual convention of the Girl Scouts of America at Indianapolis last week went "Buffalo," their honorary president-Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover. Dressed in a natty scout uniform she posed with the delegates. When a uniformed constable attempted to marshal the posers, she cried: "Here, here! We don't want any policemen in this picture!" She instructed a group of newshawks: "Girl Scout work teaches young girls the importance of housework. You know, I think it takes just as much courage to wash dishes three times a day as it does to go out and shoot a bear." From...
...urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from an oak tree-16th lynching in the U. S. this year, Georgia's second in the fortnight. After shooting at the suspended body, the mob cut it down, tied it to the truck, dragged it to and around the Thomasville square while a morbid crowd looked...