Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are thousands of victims of Parker in Cook County alone. . . . His swindles in real estate were enormous. . . ." Of all Chicago's newspapers, only the Tribune published this blast, and Mr. Parker claimed the Tribune had libeled him in doing...
...Parker v. Tribune" goes back to 1931. In that year Mr. Parker went to trial and nine months later was found guilty in Cook County Criminal Court of em bezzling at least $100,000 from North American Trust Co., in which he was a large stockholder. State's Attorney John A. Swanson, who obtained his conviction, proudly announced to the press that "Parker has been a financial racketeer in Chicago since 1912. This is the first time the law has caught up with...
Jailed for failing to meet judgment in a minor civil suit, Harrison Parker continued to hound his huge adversary. From his cell in Cook County Jail he accused the Tribune of trying to poison him with an arsenical birthday cake, raised such a row that Weymouth Kirkland of the Tribune's high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis...
Princeton alternates -- Stonington, Cook, Woodhull, Muller, Covey, Cochrane, Fraker, Moore...
...evening last week at the White House a mixed group sat down to dinner with President & Mrs. Roosevelt. They included Presidential Widow Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Gene Tunney, Tobaccoman & Mrs. S. Clay Williams, Mrs. Roosevelt's friend Nancy Cook, Tax Expert Roswell Magill just appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Wallstreeter Earle Bailie who might have had Mr. Magill's job three years ago if the Senate would have ratified his appointment. But if Franklin Roosevelt was inwardly amused at his guest list, it was not these guests who entertained him. He must have chuckled to himself...