Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Craig, 64, actor and theatrical producer: of a heart attack: in Woodmere. L. I. Longtime leading man in the famed Augustin Daly Company at Daly's Theatre (Manhattan) he succeeded John Drew there, was later leading man for Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske...
...good Democrat'' and join the campaign. Mr. Smith eyed him narrowly, promised nothing. The Speaker departed without being escorted to the building's 200-ft. tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title was "Treed," the dialog: "Come on, Al. Just one speech for Roosevelt...
...bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown (Providence Journal), Harry W. Frantz (United Press), Drew Pearson (Baltimore Sun), John Snure Jr. (Washington Times...
...experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...
Shortly after he lost his fortune in the Black Friday panic brought on by Jay Gould's gold corner in 1869, the late Berlin-born Albert Frank, then a banker, happened to suggest to a steamship line that it advertise its transatlantic service. Because the advertising drew passengers, he suggested to his banker friends that they advertise their services, helped them write their copy. Because the copy brought customers, Albert Frank founded in 1872, one of the first financial advertising agencies in Wall Street. Successfully fighting the prejudice of the times against advertising by bankers & brokers (it was thought...