Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Gordon Browning of Tennessee is not popular in Memphis because, after accepting the election support of Boss Ed Crump, he turned his back on that Democratic mastermind. One friend Governor Browning has in Memphis is Lawyer Ben W. Kohn, nowadays working hard for Mr. Browning's renomination in the August primary...
...solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed in 1928, worked up to become president of RKO Studios in Hollywood until a year ago. Promptly dubbed "producers...
...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...
Secretary of Interior Ickes has Nathan R. Margold, Harvard Law School graduate, as his solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard...
...TOMASO KOHN...