Word: jaffray
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...readily understandable to laymen; as evidence he has introduced cinemas of nuts and bolts being made at Inland Steel's works. Among the formidable witnesses scheduled to appear against Mrs. Ryan are Louis Warren Hill, director of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific, Clive T. Jaffray, president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway...
Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...