Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owner of the Shoreham Building is dapper, aggressive Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Shrewd at business as well as politics, Secretary Hurley, onetime mule boy in an Indian Territory mine, has been successfully leasing Shoreham office space to his G. 0. P. cronies. Last week he caught the best of all possible Republican tenants when President Hoover, in the name of Lawrence Richey, his detective-secretary, took a four-room suite to serve as a political watchtower overlooking the Democratic scene. Sooner or later wise Washingtonians expected to see this lettering on the door: HERBERT HOOVER, CONSULTING ENGINEER...
...Other eminent G. 0. Politicians with Shoreham offices: Everett Sanders, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Ray Benjamin, Hoover adviser from California; Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, Coolidge secretary; Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime Assistant to the Attorney General; Mabel Walker Willebrandt. onetime Assistant Attorney General. Owner Hurley will have a 16-room suite in his building where he will practice law with an as yet unnamed Washington partner...
...entertaining on Monday nights at the Opera. Lizzie Bliss was a gracious hostess. In Washington she entertained for her father when President McKinley persuaded him to leave his wholesale dry-goods business long enough to serve a term as Secretary of the Interior. Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. was part owner of the Diamond Horseshoe Box but New York has known him more for his charitable work-with the Red Cross, the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Unemployment Relief. Lizzie Bliss died two years ago but last week in his quiet, wise way Brother Cornelius stepped...
Thus to public attention came a new racket which has been growing in New York for some five months. The formula: A "protective association" demands that the garage owner force his employes to join a "union," pay a $10 initiation fee and $2 monthly dues from each man's wages. Refusal brings attempts to lure away his patrons, violence to himself and cars. The racket is spreading rapidly. In Brooklyn last week four thugs tied up a garage watchman, rolled him under an automobile, slashed the upholstery of ten cars...
Bitterly the dogs' owners accused a rival exhibitor (unnamed) of the poisoning. Calling dog shows "a filthy racket," Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue III, part owner of Lenz, declared she would never again exhibit. She had received anonymous letters threatening that the dog would never compete in this winter's shows. There has been bitter dissension lately among members of the Dachshund Club of America...