Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction...
Frankfurter. In deference to the dignity of the Supreme Court a Judiciary subcommittee offered, and Felix Frankfurter accepted, a chance to let him appear not in person but through counsel. Dapper Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
...conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court as any other candidate. As a Senate subcommittee got busy to consider whether Felix Frankfurter should be called Associate Justice, busy Professor Frankfurter declined an invitation to appear in person, deputized his friend Dean Acheson to represent...
Despite its enormous, secret circulation (lately rumored around 3,000,000) and its equally impressive profits (which FORTUNE reported at $418,000 in 1935), the Digest and its owners, DeWitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, still have nightmares when they think of one thing. What if other magazine publishers stopped allowing Reader's Digest to reprint their articles at any price...
...annual meeting in Albany, N. Y. was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, new chairman of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. and a member of that exclusive group of successful young men who served the New Deal only to part with it over fiscal policy. Others: James Paul Warburg, Dean Acheson, Lewis Douglas...