Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...
...story he had nabbed wasn't pretty: the Ahoskie Kiwanis Club had raffled off a $3,200 Cadillac at a dance for the local poor, and the winning ticket went to a Negro. The dismayed Kiwanians sent a three-man committee (including the sheriff, a Kiwanian) out to the winner's one-horse farm to tell him. that he couldn't have the car. The committee was generous about it. It gave 25-year-old Harvey Jones, an ex-G.L, his dollar back. Then the Kiwanians held another drawing, and this time the winner...
...case of Harvey Jones. Josephus Daniels' Raleigh News & Observer picked up the story first and its 85-year-old publisher sternly told Ahoskie off. United Press (14 hours ahead of the napping A.P.) took the story from there. Manhattan's underdog-loving PM launched a "Cadillac for Jones" fund. Kiwanis' national president, a North Carolinian himself, told the Ahoskie club to give Harvey a Cadillac. It wasn't easy. The dentist wouldn't give back his car, and Cadillacs are not easily come by. The Ahoskie Kiwanians finally placed an order (delivery date uncertain...
...exactly demonstrative." Relations have been a little shaky lately because of the May Day baby incident. When Bette Davis had her May Day baby, she flew the coop and refused to talk to the press. Hedda, suspecting that Bette had gone to Laguna, climbed into her grey Cadillac and simply drove down. Finding the door ajar, she walked in. Bette was delighted to see her and they talked for two hours. Said Lolly in her column the next week: "Since Bette Davis has had so many unwelcome visitors, she has had to have her gate padlocked...
...agreement, which averted a threatened strike, was reached after 22 hours of continuous negotiations in a Book-Cadillac hotel room between Ford's lanky personnel chief John S. Bugas and the U.A.W.'s self-effacing Richard T. Leonard. Details of the plan are still to be worked out, but its broad outlines were stated by Leonard...