Word: pete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Practical politics in Los Angeles have produced no more colorful figure than plump, blonde Mrs. Helen (''Queen Helen") Werner, who was an apple-cheeked Tennessee mountain girl when she went West to make good. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1920 when she married Erwin P. ("Pete") Werner, an indifferently successful lawyer, who she determined would someday be Governor. As she pushed her husband onward and upward, Queen Helen became adept at the solid kind of political maneuvering that women master infrequently. In 1929, after she had managed Pete Werner's successful campaign for city attorney...
Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...
...Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President F. R. Coates and Vice President W. Alton ("Pete") Jones of Cities Service, President H. R. Gallagher of Consolidated Oil, President Charles S. Jones of Rio Grande Oil, Richfield's longtime Receiver McDuffie and representatives of banking and creditor interests, including Cinemagnate Joseph Michael Schenck...
Those probably making the trip will be: George Ford, Austin Harding, Ralph Pope, Fred deRham, Joe Patrick, Leo Ecker, Sam Callaway, Russ Allen, Gene Emerson, Traf Hicks, Charlie Bellows, Charlie Houghton, Win Jameson, Pete Stone, Max Talbot, George Roberts. Johnny Mechem, Ned Cutter, George Mahoney, and Nort Kidder...
Shifting from the 155 to the 165-pound class Captain Pete Olney will lead the team against the strong Tech fighters. Special interest will center in the 115-pound class where Bill Segal, undefeated in Freshman competition last year, will attempt to keep a clean slate...