Word: berney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrealist is Berney, owner of Berney's Restaurant, Jacksonville, Fla., but a wide-awake, up-and-coming restaurateur, who carries out a green motif from A to Z, scattering Irish shamrocks about his establishment with finesse seldom equaled by a Jew. Dressed completely in green day and night, he will give to any woman dressed entirely in green the choice of his menu, gratis...
...gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served as counsel, he was singled out for honorable presidential mention by the Board's onetime chairman and Democracy's silent partner, Bernard Mannes ("Berney") Baruch. By the time Governor Ritchie left New York for Pittsburgh to address the Third International Bituminous Coal Conference, his White House candidacy had grown to visible proportions...