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Chuck telephoned his Washington lawyer, ex-Congressman Jim Barnes, of Illinois, to send him all the statistics he could find. Chuck alerted Manhattan's and Chicago's advertising agencies. "Get some ideas." He told the agency men to meet him three days hence in Washington's Carlton Hotel. While copywriters and layout artists worked and slept in their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship...
Kentucky's old (72) ex-Congressman Andy May stood up in a Washington federal court last week and proclaimed: "I have never tasted liquor, wine or beer . . . if I go to jail my grandchildren will drop out of college." The two Garsson brothers appealed for mercy too. Henry Garsson made a speech; Murray Garsson wept softly. The Garssons had been convicted of giving May bribes of $53,000 while running a shoestring into a $78 million munitions combine (TIME, July 25, 1946 et seq.); all three faced maximum sentences of six years, fines of $30,000. Judge Henry...
After one hour and 50 minutes of deliberation, a federal jury last week convicted Munitions-Makers Murray and Henry Garsson and ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to defraud the Government (TIME, July 15, 1946 et seq.). The maximum sentence for each count: a $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
Tall, ash-blonde, Vassar-grad Letitia Baldridge, daughter of Nebraska's ex-Congressman Malcolm Baldridge, was worried. Rain (always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...
...appointment as a $1-a-year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...