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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Steuer.* In Manhattan, it leaked out that Max D. Steuer had been obliged to pay $5,251.30 in duties and fines for an improper customs declaration which his wife had made out for them jointly. Inspectors had discovered $2,625.65 (U. S. value) worth of dresses, lingerie, etc., etc., in the Steuer luggage which Mrs. Steuer had neglected to mention...
Bigwigs. Before their own Grand Jury the Federals began by reviewing the case of one Joel D. Kerper, "society bootlegger," whose headquarters were raided on July 20. The examination of 'Legger Kerper's records disclosed the names of many famed Philadelphians, presumably bigwigs who had dickered with him. Among these were: D. B. Cummins Catherwood, banker; Gardner Cassat, banker & broker; Roland R. Foulke, attorney & active churchman; Maxwell R. Marston, onetime (1923) national amateur golf champion; Major Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, author, lecturer, explorer, founder of the "Athletic Christianity" movement. Subpoenas were scattered far and wide...
...Dear, dear−here he is right in our midst−a real, live prince. . . . [Whisper]−I'd really rather be a traffic cop myself, wouldn...
...appropriate adaptations of waltz and mazurka, the Shubert Brothers offered this glib and pleasant operetta based upon the life of famed Composer Frederic François Chopin. It stresses the episodes in which the composer was seen about with George Sand, meeting her at the home of the Countess d' Agoult and playing or grieving with her at Majorca...
Last week, Painter MacLane exhibited many a watercolor, and oil portraits of Mrs. D. Percy Morgan Jr., and of 14-year-old Samuel F. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Finley Thomas of the Stockbridge colony. Sparkling, vivid with life, this portrait attracted particular comment. But some visitors preferred Painter Johansen's study of his 12-year-old son. Not all visitors knew that Painter Johansen and Painter MacLane are man and wife...