Word: franklyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman...
Ding-Dong, The Witch is Dead, Harold Arlen's most appealing peal from The Wizard of Oz, gets by far its best record production (verse and all) from Tenor Ralph Blane and Franklyn Mark's band (Liberty Music Shop...
...source of glee to the tabloids but a source of resigned annoyance to dignified Johns-Manville Corp. was the announcement fortnight ago by Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr. that he had just picked his fifth wife-blonde Show Girl Yvonne Arden. Although for years Playboy Tommy has had no connection with the company from which he inherited his millions, his penchant for blondes makes frequent headlines in which he is inevitably labeled the "asbestos heir." This is one public relations problem that Johns-Manville has been unable to solve...
...Franklyn Laws Mutton's "little girl," Barbara, Woolworth heiress...
They were the Democratic National Committee's brilliant chief press agent, Charles Michelson, whose first feat was to smear Hoover, and his G. O. P. counterpart, Franklyn Thomas Waltman Jr. Dark, 35-year-old Republican Waltman paid elaborate tribute to the libertarian legacy of Democratic Patron Saint Thomas Jefferson, worked himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under...