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Just one month after dissolving his own Stock Exchange firm to become a limited partner of Shields & Co.* Allen Ledyard Lindley, 56, last week resigned as chairman of the Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct. Reason: he had to work five hours a day as "Wall Street's policeman," wanted more time of his own. Vice chairman Howland S. Davis took over...
Feature of the evening was a Virginia Reel danced by a party in costume including Newshawks Raymond Clapper, J. Fred Essary, Ulric Bell, Ernest Lindley, Secretary Morgenthau, James Roosevelt and their wives, not to mention Gracie Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts...
...Connellsville, Pa., State Police discovered that John Lindley Collins, 39, had stumbled into a sunken grave, smothered to death when he grabbed a 300-lb. tombstone which toppled on to his chest...
...under the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission, showed no surprise, explained nothing, allowed police cars to escort him and two girl friends in a taxi to the Holland Tunnel. He then disappeared. The mystery at once thickened and clarified when newshawks found beauteous Mrs. Groves, onetime Cinemactress Monaei Lindley, in tears at the Groves's triplex apartment on Park Avenue. Preceding her husband to New York by one day, she said, she had found their home in disorder, their two-months-old baby, Wallace Lindley, and his nurse both gone. Indicating that she believed by this time...
Half Way with Roosevelt (Viking Press, $2.50) by Ernest K. Lindley begins: "This book is based on the supposition that many people are becoming tired of extravagant language in politics." It ends: "Everybody knows that, if this country conserves its resources, it can produce enough to provide everybody with a decent standard of living. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has moved a little distance forward. . . ." First for the late arch-Democratic New York World, since then for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, Author Lindley covered Franklin Roosevelt for seven years, became one of the President's favorite White House correspondents...