Word: celler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed-one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler...
...situation is not new, but each time it happens it is unforgettable to passengers. Sometimes they sit tight. Sometimes they get hysterical. The Frobisher's passengers provided a gay variation. Yankee John Anthony Celler, a tourist from New Haven, Conn., stood up. "Anybody got a flask or something?" he coolly inquired. "I'd like to celebrate this occasion." The equerry looked a bit startled, the businessmen surveyed him askance. But Mlle Anne Chagno of Paris came characteristically into the action. She broke out two bottles of champagne. The businessmen quickly found some tumblers. Yankee Celler popped the first...
...this point Frances May Maddux, with the aplomb of many a speakeasy and night-club experience at her command, and Cinemactress Grace Evans joined the party. So did the Duke's equerry, Lieutenant David Scrymgeour (sometimes pronounced skinner) Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Yankee Celler raised a glass. Yankee Maddux proposed a toast. "To disaster," she chirruped, adding cannily, "if it comes." To disaster they drank. Then, prudently refraining from smashing the glasses, they proceeded to polish off both bottles...
Safely aground, Yankee Celler added a homey touch. "All the time we were up there I was thinking, 'This will be a first-page story in New Haven if we smash.' What a vacation for me! Only a week ago I was in one of Hitler's prisons for taking pictures without permission." Said brunette Miss Maddux: "It was fun. I think I made some good friends during that half hour." Then the toasters set off for a party at a London hotel, equerry...
...version of his own, with its high notes pruned to fit the limitations of the average voice (TIME, Feb. 7). Bandleader Lopez' version, duly performed in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, caused very mild applause. But last week, as Congress was hurrying toward adjournment, publicity-loving Congressman Emanuel Celler (N. Y.) urged official acceptance of Lopez' "squeakless" anthem. Said Congressman Celler: "Why not enable everybody to sail into it ... with a more relaxed larynx...