Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ewing Virgil Neal was busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester...
...some of the 450 special police. Out of the car got a Roman Catholic priest. He was soon lost until someone screeched "Here's Father Coughlin" and catapulted Detroit's famed radio demagog through a door. Old Uncle Henry followed in the swirl but onetime Senator Robert Owen, tall and feeble, became terrified. "Please get me out of this" cried...
...from the Hippodrome platform, following Senator Owen and famed Inflation-Senator Thomas, Father Coughlin raised his arm, wagged his finger at a hysterical crowd. Shrilly he yelled: 'Stop Roosevelt! Stop Roosevelt! Stop him from being stopped! And when Franklin Roosevelt is stopped, I imagine that I will be broadcasting from the North Pole...
...chief prelate, and the big warm room buzzed with the voices of General Motors' Sloan, General Electric's Gerard Swope, Ford's Sorensen, Pennsylvania Railroad's Atterbury, Baldwin Locomotive's Houston, Thomas A. Edison's son Charles, Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, Owen D. Young, Henry Morgenthau Sr. and dowagers galore. As Comrade Litvinoff waddled in to take his place beneath the crossed Red Flag and Stars and Stripes the "Star-Spangled Banner" brought all to their feet and few sat down when the organ switched into the "Internationale...
Author Walker devotes a chapter to Manhattan's No. 1 Racketeer, Owen Victor ("Owney") Madden, who under Prohibition "became, in many respects, the most important man in New York. . . . In many ways he had more sense than Capone. He was a better business man. He saw what too much publicity was doing for Capone." (Released from his latest term at Sing Sing last July, Owney Madden is now at large.) Of another Walker, Manhattan's ex-Mayor James John, he says: "If he had wanted to study, he could have led the class"; quotes Jimmy's definition...