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...helped rescue his bride from kidnappers. Cried he then: "If a single hair of Mrs. Donnelly's head is harmed, I'll devote the rest of my life to catching the kidnappers." Her rise to fame began 26 years ago with experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") of her own design. Ever since Mrs. Reed died last year and Mrs. Donnelly divorced her husband a month later, Missourians have expected their political hero someday to marry their most famed business woman...
...Thus was heightened a longtime friendship between Senator Reed and Mrs. Donnelly, who attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention to help boom him for President. Her rise to prominence began with small scale experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") which she had designed. Now she heads the Donnelly Garment Co. which has grossed as high as $3,750,000 in a year...