Word: j
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...J. COWARD...
...President, with a long statement applauding it, and flaying sales-tax schemes like the Townsend Plan, together with Treasury-raiding schemes like the Connally amendment (two Federal dollars for one State dollar), was the Social Security revision act. To study further Security revision, he added Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board (but, strangely, not Administrator Paul McNutt of the Security Agency) to his Cabinet committee on this subject...
Callers on District Attorney Dewey last week were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, underworld lawyer whose "squealing" testimony won the Hines case for Dewey, and Hope Dare, the redheaded showgirl, long his mistress, whom he married last fortnight. After posing protrusively for newscameras, Davis, whom Dewey detectives still guard night & day, denied helping Dewey try to find Lepke, complained: "Everybody is looking for Lepke and finding me! I want to go away with Hope to some small town and write fiction...
...sort of union holding company, Four As has eleven affiliates for stage actors, cinemactors, radio performers, vaudevillians, et al. Last week such affiliated Rats as Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Morgan, Lawrence Tibbett, Edward Arnold, Fredric March, Binnie Barnes, Wayne Morris dashed by plane and train to Atlantic City, N. J., to gnaw back at expansive Mr. Browne...
...taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries as J. P. Morgan and the late Judge Elbert H. Gary...