Word: lates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception was a brilliant, deadly parallel to the late T. E. Lawrence's masterly guerilla tactics in the Arabian revolt in the desert...
...Dillman (once Mrs. Horace Elgin Dodge), vice president of the Detroit Symphony, has given it some $1,000,000 in 20 years, but this year felt obliged to reduce her contribution from $50,000 to $30,000-top donation in the drive. Moreover, the Symphony has sadly missed its late, lionized Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, whose successors, Coconductors Victor Kolar and Franco Ghione, are competent but barely kittenized...
Married. Philip Dunne, 31, scenarist and son of the late great Humorist Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne; and Actress Amanda Duff, 25; in Virginia City...
Ladies and Gentlemen (by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete; produced by Gilbert Miller). Decade ago the late Minnie Maddern Fiske huffed, barked, flounced her way through a typical virtuoso's vehicle, Ladies of the Jury. Hungarian Ladislaus Bush-Fekete (né Bus-Fekete: the "h" was his idea of Americanizing the name) made a play with the same situation-a resourceful woman swinging the rest of a jury around from a verdict of guilty to acquittal in a murder case...
...late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105. Eventually the syndicate including Arthur Morris and four other directors of Industrial, sold the shares to the corporation, at a profit...