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...MacCracken's whereabouts were anything but a secret. For several hours he was seated in the office of the clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court but Mr. Jurney did not want to look for him there. The fact was that Mr. MacCracken's lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall and Edward L. Doheny made him the Senate's No. 1 antagonist, was playing a game with the Senate. Mr. Hogan wanted Mr. Jurney to arrest his client in a court where a writ of habeas corpus could at once...
Where these swift developments left Jean Chiappe no one pretended to know. Under great pressure, the dapper prefect of Paris police had been dismissed by Premier Daladier because one section of the public believed that he had wilfully failed to prosecute Swindler Stavisky, because another section believed that he collected a fat fortune in office by subtly blackmailing crooked politicians. But even without these groups smiling Prefect Chiappe still had enormous personal popularity throughout Paris. No sooner was his removal announced than roars for his restoration were heard. Rioting crowds interlarded "Vive Chiappe!" with cries of "Voleurs!" "Assassins!", saved their...
Almost every one of Duke's 2,800 students turned out for assembly. Most of them applauded politely when fat, dapper...
...rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...
Sponsor of these and many another innovation in men's clothes is dapper Ray mond Godfrey Twyeffort, chairman of the Fashion Committee. He was conspicuous at the convention in a large-checked rope-shouldered suit of grey and red, with flaming red handkerchief, white spats and chamois gloves. (He kept the left one on.) He has no sympathy for men who do not believe in color. Cried he: "Color will bring back prosperity...