Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeking General Electric's Young-Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Company-for his local lieutenant as Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. That would be a second stroke in the effort to show the country that there are big business brains beneath the Brown Derby...
Chairman of Finance-Herbert H. Lehman of Manhattan, Jewish banker, long time friend of Nominee Smith. This appointment was an outcropping' of one of the richest veins in the Brown Derby's field of political resources. Potent Jews seem to be preponderantly Democratic this year. Many of them were Woodrow Wilson's friends. They include Bernard Mannes Baruch, Jesse Isidore Straus,* Louis Marshal, Julius Rosenwald, Otto Hermann Kahn, Philadelphia's Gimbels...
Mayor Walker, touring the West in the interests of the Brown Derby, visited Hollywood last week. Abruptly, unexpectedly, he took the Messrs. Schenck and Mayer, though not by name, as the text for a sermon to the cinema industry. He warned it to be nonpartisan. He reminded it that public officials such as himself had power over Sunday theatre laws, for example. He said he hoped that cinemen "are not so enslaved that they can be handed over" by two or three leaders in the industry. He warned that should the industry "dabble in politics" and choose the losing side...
Last week's visit by Agents Washburn and Grisson seemed to indicate pressure from high Federal powers. "The Gut's" murderous loss of self-control boded ill for the Brown Derby...
Married. Betty Brown Tailer, 17, Manhattan scioness, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer; to Walter Gurnee Dyer, son of Brig. Gen. George R. Dyer, grandson of onetime Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island...