Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom seen in pre-war Spain, but even more conspicuous last week, were the thin, elegant features of Ramón Serrano Suñer, fastest-climbing of Europe's modern politicos. Now 37, a lawyer educated in Italy, Señor Serrano's pre-war claims to distinction were his service as a Catholic deputy in the Cortes, his marriage to handsome Señorita Polo, sister of Señora Franco. His war record included an escape from Madrid's Model Prison, a trip to Germany to be feted by Nazis...
Married. Adrianne Allen Massey, 32, British actress, and William Dwight Whitney, 39, Manhattan socialite lawyer; both for the second time, in Storrington, England. Fortnight ago Mrs. Whitney's former husband, Actor Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) married Mr. Whitney's former wife, Dorothy Ludington Whitney...
...recover a clothes bill from dapper Gangster Lawyer Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, who this week finishes a stay in The Bronx County jail for participating in the Dutch Schultz policy racket, swank Haberdasher Amos Sulka went to court. Some items: shirts at $18.25 (one day Customer Davis bought 16), handkerchiefs at $3, silk drawers* at $12.50, socks at $5.25 a pair, two "ladies' lounge suits" at $105 each...
...Willie Woodin packed up his guitar and went to Washington to become Secretary of the Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
Last week Gene Tunney was in the whiskey business, Restaurateur Jack Dempsey was recuperating from an appendectomy, Babe Ruth was looking for a manager's job in the major leagues, Bobby Jones was an aging, paunchy Atlanta lawyer, Paavo Nurmi was managing a tidy fortune invested in Finnish real estate. Having accepted a back seat or had it thrust upon them, none of these once-great sporting figures was much more than a brave memory...