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Showman. The real showman of the Morgan investigation, however, was not a circus pressagent. nor a Senator but the kinky-haired, olive-skinned, jut-jawed lawyer from Manhattan named Ferdinand ("Pick") Pecora. Because Senator Fletcher, who at 74 looks like a wealthy Yankee visitor to his own Florida, is not another "Tom"' Walsh with the mental capacity to prosecute his own investigations, Lawyer Pecora was hired last January as the committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime...
...together in Box 20. Delegates cheered but few noticed when a stout, jut-jawed man in a brown suit also entered and sat down inconspicuously...
...year ago Loft, Inc. lost $260,000 during the half. Since then its new management, under jut-jawed Charles G. Guth, has taken it in hand. The purity of Loft's candies has been strongly advertised, and the value of its $1 dinner. For this half it earned $219,000. The Waldorf System, Inc. (restaurant subsidiary) earned $604,000 compared with $592,000. Bickford's chain showed $372,000 against...
...Sent by a Manhattan organization called the Anti-Gang Rule League he had addressed a Chicago body called the Universal Fellowship Foundation, which sings songs between its dinner courses, including a non-flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational speech, Cartoonist Crosby-short, stocky, jut-jawed-had cried: "Capone . . . has one man right here in Chicago to whom he cannot sell protection nor security at any price! ... It must not be forgotten that once Babylon throve with corruption, but when the time came, God-without the loss of the universal beat-shattered it! ... Peace will come...
...trees. The California women who had been paying their fares eastward year after year were to be given a chance at home. Nevertheless, impartial critics did not give them much chance against the little group of top-notch players from the East-National Champion Glenna Collett; broad-shouldered, jut-jawed Maureen Orcutt; chubby, thick-muscled Helen Hicks; Virginia Van Wie of Chicago...