Word: sheriff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn John Deering was taken to the prison courtyard, strapped in a chair, a cap over his head, a target over his heart. At Sheriff S. Grant Young's orders, five deputies raised their rifles and John Deering got what he asked...
...political side, Councilmen who were interviewed were inclined to be more moderate. Interest centered on opinions of Michael A. Sullivan and Michael J. Dee, councilmen for Wards 6 and 7, in which most of the University property lies. Dee, who is running for sheriff of middle sex County, refused to say anything, but Sullivan followed the idea that Harvard was no credit to Cambridge as he said...
...that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided to go ahead with his own plans. Last week as Mr. Emery's National Small Business Men's Association finally met in Pittsburgh for its first convention, he promised there...
Without actually campaigning for "$30 Every Thursday." Mr. Olson had no trouble beating Sheriff Daniel C. Murphy of San Francisco, Representative John...
...girl whom Paul Dwyer accused old Dr. Littlefield of slurring was blonde, pert Barbara Carroll, 17-year-old daughter of a South Paris deputy sheriff. Since Dwyer originally said he consulted the doctor about a venereal disease, this mention of Barbara Carroll was a slur indeed. Dwyer omitted her name from subsequent confessions, gave the murder motive as robbery. To friendly South Parisians, Barbara and her father, a respectable World War veteran and deacon, were characters almost as touching as Mrs. Jessie Dwyer, a simple nurse who had long struggled to keep her fatherless boy out of debt. But last...