Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dapper Joe Smoot, who had built Hialeah in 1925 and started the building of California's Santa Anita six years ago, had a harder time than he expected getting his latest racetrack in operation. He had to appeal to the State Supreme Court before he could get a permit from the Florida Racing Commission, which felt it was unsound for two tracks to operate at the same time in Greater Miami. After the permit was finally granted, Promoter Smoot decided to pull out. Contractor Horning, by this time infected with Promoter Smoot's enthusiasm, took over the track...
Frankfurter. In deference to the dignity of the Supreme Court a Judiciary subcommittee offered, and Felix Frankfurter accepted, a chance to let him appear not in person but through counsel. Dapper Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
...kibitzer, radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...
...pitiable" state of elderly Episcopal clergymen moved Bishop William Lawrence (now retired) of Massachusetts to raise $8,700,000 among U. S. Episcopalians, help found the Church Pension Fund. Treasurer of this organization today is J. P. Morgan, although the man who really runs it is dapper, twinkling, argumentative Bradford B. Locke of Princeton, its able executive vice president. Last week the Church Pension Fund held its 21st annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that...
...September a dapper State House politico and ex-tire salesman named Wallace Edwards suddenly announced he was publisher of the Times. But not until last week did another power behind the paper emerge from a woodpile of rumor and conjecture: Tennessee's Senator-reject George Leonard Berry, who got his start in a newspaper pressroom...