Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have carefully investigated and find no actual existence of such an organization, registered as an organization, as a firm, partnership, person or persons doing business under an assumed name by and in accordance with the statutes of the State. . . . We are forced to conclude that the named confederation on whose behalf you communicate with our Chief of Police is a legal nonentity...
Last month Manhattan's Tammany Hall was down in the dumps. Its official mayoralty candidate, Royal Samuel Copeland, the personal & private selection of Tammany Chieftain James J. Dooling, was by no means acceptable to many an old-line Tammany leader. Worse still, Tammany had been let down by the leaders of New York City's four other boroughs, who had selected an opposition candidate in the person of Grover Aloysius Whalen, thus diminishing Tammany's otherwise fair chance of recovering the City Hall held for the last four years by Fusion Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, Aug. 2). Then...
...Government of Northern Ireland. According to Belfast's police, they staged the burnings, beatings and bombings specially arranged for the State visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth (TIME, Aug. 9). They were accused last week of another outrage: attacking a man's home when his person is not available...
...Muni set the second most important person is Mrs. Muni. If she likes a "take" she nods. If not, she shakes her head and even though Muni and the director are satisfied, the scene is done over...
...Ball whom he can also use as a model for Townsend Silver advertising, thus assuring a million dollar account for his insolvent agency. When stuffy young Alan Townsend (Richard Arlen) tells him that he wants a socialite for both jobs, the indefatigable Brewster finds one in the person of Townsend's fiancee Cynthia (Gail Patrick). But meantime Brewster's professional model fiancée Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) has pursued young Townsend to Miami, convinced him, apparently by drinking tea with an arched ringer, that she is an eligible socialite herself. Before this situation, complicated by the fact...