Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same revamping process has been applied to district attorneys. In Manhattan, lethargic Lamar Hardy was replaced by John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like...
Relief Rolls into Payrolls? Last week Manhattan's Republican Congressman Bruce Barton, who as a good advertising man would never try to put Business on the spot, said in Rochester: ". . . The [New Deal] heresies are being swept away; the threats [to Business] are one by one being dispelled; the responsibility now comes directly to industry. Its leaders mast banish unemployment from America . . . put men and women back to work. This is their challenge and their opportunity. . . ." The one sign vouchsafed up to last week's end indicated that Business will do very little until Congress has done much...
Last week, when Dr. Leach rolled into Manhattan in his twelve-cylinder red Cadillac for the 45th annual convention of the N. M. A., the storm broke. A small group of Manhattan physicians, led by distinguished Skull-Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But Dr. Leach clung on. He insisted that he had been framed by Federal agents in 1928. "I had only one quart of Sandy MacDonald in my possession," he said, "and I was taking it home for my personal use." He promised to resign if the convention would only pass...
Died. Clendenin J. Ryan, 56, son of Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Capable executor of his father's $135,000,000 estate, of which he and Brother. John Barry got ample shares and Brother Allan a pair of shirt studs, he was active in finance until the last despite diabetes which reduced his six-foot-two frame from...
Last week, in hot and humid Manhattan, delegates and visitors to Dean Russell's Congress jampacked Columbia's biggest hall, its gymnasium and two overflow meeting rooms to hear democracy defended. Present were delegates from 26 noneducational organizations, and an equal number of educators, some 3,000 all told. National Association of Manufacturer's Lammot du Pont rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers...