Word: abed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suing for Divorce. Diana Churchill Bailey, daughter of Britain's Rt. Hon Winston Churchill; from John Milner Bailey, son of Sir Abe Bailey, Transvaal gold mine owner; in London...
...forestall such a possibility of outside interference, five radio bandmasters met this week in Paul Whiteman's Manhattan apartment, formed a Committee of Five for the Betterment of Radio. Members: Paul Whiteman (Kraft's Cheese), Rudy Vallée (Fleischmann's Yeast), Guy Lombardo (St. Joseph's Aspirin), Abe Lyman (Phillips' Milk of Magnesia), Richard Himber (Studebaker). Similar committees, they announced, would be formed in Chicago and San Francisco and other key cities...
Best known Memphis Businessman is William Neely ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, All-America Yale footballer (1923), last man tapped for Skull & Bones in his year, vice president of Memphis Cotton Compress & Storage Co. and president of the Carnival Association. Then there is Abe Plough, whose Plough Inc. makes 240,000,000 aspirin tablets a year and Memphis a big U. S. aspirin centre. Snuff is ruddy-faced Martin J. Condon's line, and his American Snuff Co. is one of the world's three largest. Another big cotton broker is J. P. Norfleet. And the town...
...rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like him: Dr. Jacob Viner (Treasury Department), Norman Meyers (Interior Department), Abe Fortas and Lee Pressman...
...state court where charges of embezzlement awaited Insull an additional bond of $50,000 was demanded. Six private citizens stepped forward with $100,000 in real estate to pledge for his appearance at trial. One was John R. Palandech, advertising and publicity representative of foreign language newspapers. Another was Abe Salitsky, junkman, who did not know Insull and had lost $50,000 in the collapse of the Insull companies. He put up a $60,000 apartment house. To his six benefactors Sam Insull made a little speech: "I want to thank you. This is encouraging. I appreciate it more because...