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William Bateman Leeds Jr., sportsman, gave his yacht Sinco (onetime boat of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair) to dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York City for official use, probably for the harbor reception of visiting notables...
Police Detective Johnson was demoted to Patrolman and scheduled to be tried for conduct unbecoming an officer. It was at this trial, which began last week in New York under the personal supervision of dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, that the Bronx banquet began to seem an astonishing affair...
...weeks after the murder the police dawdled over clues, questioned suspects, released them. Mayor James John Walker, fretted by his police department's impotence, fearing a political backlash, released Joseph A. Warren as Police Commissioner and installed Grover Aloysius Whalen, dapper manager of the John Wanamaker department store...
...Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and the world for the first time about the President's disarmament plans-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...