Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned yesterday that E. F. Craig '25, song writer, who recently exposed the "Weary River" song theft to the CRIMSON, is at resent in New York City where he is completing arrangements to bring suit against Louis Silvers for using one of the songs from the 1925 Hasty Pudding Show for the current Richard Barthelmess movie production. Craig has as his lawyers Paul N. Turner, who is the most prominent attorney in America to handle cases for authors and actors. Turner is bringing a combined suit in Craig's name against Warner Bros. Company and Irving Berlin, who later copyrighted...
James Roosevelt '30, of Hyde Park on Hudson, N. Y. has been elected president of the organization for the coming year. The position of vice-president will be filled by C. M. Underphill '30, of Searsdale, N. Y. C. G. Chase '30, is the new treasurer, and F. D. Emight '30 will be secretary...
More trouble seemed imminent when Edward F. McGrady for the A. F. of L. and Alfred Hoffman for the United Textile Union went there last week to smooth out difficulties. Their missions were successfully completed when into McGrady's room at the Lynwood Hotel (where Mr. Hoover was feasted) broke a masked mob at 2 a. m. McGrady was seized, placed in a taxi, threatened with death if he ever returned, deported to the Virginia-Tennesee line at Bristol...
Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...
Died. Nathan F. Leopold, 69, of Chicago, retired lake transportation tycoon, father of Nathan F. Leopold Jr. (famed co-murderer, with Richard Loeb, of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924); after an operation; in Chicago. Murderer Loeb's father died in 1924. Father Jacob Franks died last year. All three fathers, prominent Chicagoans before the crime, lived afterward in seclusion...