Word: friend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lepke, dead or alive, in addition to $5,000 offered by the Federal Government. Pat came announcement of a nationwide crime drive, "the greatest ever" by the F. B. I., through the office of Tom Dewey's neighbor and contemporary, U. S. District Attorney John T. Cahill, friend and protege of Franklin Roosevelt's Janizary, Tommy ("Uncorkable") Corcoran...
Omitted from their roster by his own desire-although it was announced that the committee would consult him-was aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who set up and headed the 1918 War Industries Board. Mr. Baruch's friend and Wartime coworker, Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, who months ago was ruled out of rearmament councils, called this "bumptious folly." Omitted from the official announcement was any explanation of the speed with which Mr. Stettinius, et al. were picked. Plans for allocating U. S. production could be almost as useful to warring friends of the U. S. as to warring...
...sudden the magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition...
...rich enough to stand the strain. When he died in 1935 sales were picking up, and he left his own galleries the job of auctioning off his collection of art objects, books and engravings. Executors of the Bishop estate included his widow, Amy Bend Bishop, and his old friend and employe, Edith Nixon. Widow and friend were both dissatisfied with sales of the Bishop art. They looked about for a book expert to help courtly President Hiram Haney Parke (art specialist who had been with the company 25 years, had run it for Owner Bishop since 1923) sell the books...
...consent. Said he: "If I don't die I will have it to do over again. I had more trouble than I could stand." Asked for an opinion, Attorney General Earl Warren told the hospital that Dr. Cardwell was within his rights. Mrs. Cardwell, found traveling with a friend, and Son Samuel Cardwell, who heard the news by radio, both agreed. So the doctors put their knives away, waited for the patient to suffer a change of heart. Next morning he was dead...