Word: buckners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convicted last week in Manhattan Federal Court for their part in this fruitless flurry were suave William P. Buckner Jr., 32 (bibulous distant relative of sermonizing New York Life Insurance Co. Chairman Thomas A. Buckner), and his associate William J. Gillespie, 37. Unlike most U. S. Government prosecutions, handsome Bondster Buckner's trial produced a flashy array of Government witnesses: Cinemactors Frank Morgan and Herbert Brough Marshall, Everett Crosby, brother and manager of Crooner Bing (none of whom yielded to Buckner's urgings to get rich quick in the Philippine bonds), Doris ("Peewee") Donaldson and two other Broadway...
Absent from the fortnight trial was Massachusetts' Senator David Ignatius Walsh, who introduced a bill to help the bond redemption by Congress legislation. To lobby for the bill "Peewee" and her pals were flown to Washington for champagne parties. Said Buckner, "It never occurred to me that I had to become a monk. . . ." But for throwing away $12,500 of bondholders' funds on the parties, as chairman of bondholders' protective committee, as well as the bond rigging, Bondster Buckner and his friend Gillespie were convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, may have to spend 37 years...
...cities. There are the battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State...
Rebuttal to that testimony came from New York Life's Chairman Thomas A. Buckner, whose directors include RCA's chairman and R. H. Macy's president. "If we carried out your theory to its logical conclusion," observed Mr. Buckner, "we couldn't send a radiogram or buy a desk at Macy...
...Primrose Path (By Robert L. Buckner & Walter Hart; produced by George Abbott). Eccentric families have become common as dirt on the stage. The family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like...