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Decatur Daily in Decatur, Alabama

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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 16, 1935

Page

2

Science Derides the Love-Slave Verdict in Lopez Case

Long courtroom piece argues against the old common law idea that a woman is a love slave. It cites Marquita Lopez's acquittal in a police killing and cites psychologist William Moulton Marston on gendered love dynamics.

Marquita Lopez New York Marquita W Oman William Moulton Marston Mar— Lopez Professor Marston Lopez Albert Pearson Sabella Omas Saunders Costa Spain Atlantic Ocean

Christmas pudding luck and famed love slaves in history

A column blends Christmas superstition with portraits of six British orphans awaiting adoption in Leytonstone as they stir a pudding for luck. It then shifts to a historical vignette on women using love power, citing Cleopatra, Delilah, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow to illustrate female influence over male fate.

Samson Columbia University Shim Sabella Marquita Lopez Marquita Gerry Children’s Aid Society Leytonstone British Isles Ower Strikin Cleopatra Julius Caesar Caesar Julius Egypt Dillinger Delilah Francis Crowley Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker Clyde Barcow Bonnie Wiece Texas Aphexvien Leytonstone Children’s Aid Society

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James Jerossi Thomas Saunders Miss Lopez Wm . Kramer Jim Tom Prof WM. M. Marston
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