Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan restaurant one morning last week three people sat breakfasting on highballs. They were Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, 40, a Roman Catholic priest; Joseph Lieb Steinmetz, 22, a Jew turned Presbyterian theology student; and Mrs. Steinmetz, 17, a minor showgirl whom he had married a fortnight before. The three had met casually the night before. From the restaurant they returned to the Knights of Columbus Club Hotel and the Steinmetz room where another bottle of whiskey was consumed. When Steinmetz began feeling groggy, Father Leonard suggested he lie down. He heard the priest say to his wife...
...hours the Catholic-run hotel succeeded in hushing news of this crime. When the police finally let it out, reporters hotfooted to the chancery of St. Mary's Cathedral at Trenton, N. J., the diocese to which Father Leonard had been attached. A bombardment of press questions followed. The chancery, rigorously schooled in the use of language, was soon ready with its vindication: ''Father Leonard had an attack of influenza in the epidemic of 1918 and 1919. . . . He was mentally sluggish...
...banquet was under the direction of Malcolm Soymour '35, who is retiring as manager. Donald F. Pitcher '33, former manager, acted as toastmaster. The main speaker and guest of honor was Leonard F. Hubbard '31, another former manager...
...types of work to be done by patrolmen" constitutes the crucial recommendation for the improvement of the Boston police department made by the Harvard Crime Survey in its volume, "Police Administration in Boston," which is published by the Harvard University Press this week. The book is the work of Leonard V. Harrison, of New York, N. Y., a police expert of many years standing...
...creditors hemmed him in, charged him with mismanagement. Even his able right-hand man, Winfield ("Winnie") Sheehan, turned against him. When the smoke of battle cleared, William Fox had been beaten and ousted by a group headed by Utilitarian Harley Lyman Clarke of General Theatres Equipment Corp., Harold Leonard Halsey of Halsey, Stuart & Co., and John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products, Inc., subsidiary of A. T. & T. William Fox got $21,000,000 for his stock and a salary of $500,000 a year for five years. These tidy sums he called meagre consolation. He had always, he said...