Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked when he would move from the Hotel Biltmore into his new Manhattan home (No. 51 Fifth Ave.). Said he, paying the ultimate tribute to Catherine Dunn ("Katie") Smith, "I will move when the last rug is laid, the last picture is on the wall and dinner is on the table...
...years, possessor of a large fortune (one copper consolidation which he effected brought $775,000 in lawyer fees). A persistent advocate of public control of pub lic utilities he has long fought on New York City's side of its subway fight and in 1926 he was Alfred Emanuel Smith's ad viser in blocking a private Power deal very similar to the one now effected by the House of Morgan. At present he is investigating for Governor Roosevelt in stances wherein municipalities are sup posed to have paid politicians too dearly for park and building sites...
utility and contracting Brooklynite (self-made), great & good friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, telephoned from Paris to Manhattan for Barber Louis Arico to come and cut his hair in England (TIME, Sept. 16). Barber Arico set sail...
Louis Arico, barber to most of Tammany Hall, was awakened one morning at 5 a. m. by a trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than...