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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1920s she had led a series of violent raids until she was sued for smashing up a soft-drink parlor. She was also imprisoned for a year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lady of Le Mans | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Without Warning (by Ralph Spencer Zink; A. L. Jones, producer) is a mystery melodrama which takes place in an experimental hangar of a U. S. arsenal on an unnamed island off the Atlantic coast. It opens with a crucifixion, ends with a shooting. In the highly exciting interim a tough colonel from the Judge Advocate General's Department (Jack Roseleigh), who arrives by Coast Guard plane in dress blues fresh from a Washington dinner party to solve the first killing, beats the daylights out of the wrong man just because he has it coming to him and, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Scholarships. To Frederick Daniel Zink of Zanesville, Ohio, David A. Davidson and Winston Phelps of New York, graduates of Columbia School of Journalism, $1,800 each to study for a year social, political and moral conditions in Europe, and the character and principles of the European press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pulitzer Awards | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Zink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Trance | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...Mars, Iowa, the probated will of T. M. Zink, deceased attorney, revealed:1) His $100,000 estate is to be placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman's name, over whose portal will blaze: "No Women Admitted"; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Trance | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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