Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrest of plump "Baron" Oscar Merrill Hartzell, who collected nearly $1,300,000 in 13 years from gullible Mid-western aspirants to the non-existent $22,000,000,000 estate of Sir Francis Drake, famed Elizabethan mariner (TIME. Jan. 23, Feb. 27): conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud, sentence of ten years in jail, fine of $2.000; in Sioux City, Iowa...
Created by the President last summer, D. P. I. was operating last week in a six-room office in the huge Department of Commerce Building. At its head was Katherine C. Blackburn, a dark, plump, capable woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most...
Suitable Suitor. For the plump hand of the House of Bacardi there have been many suitors in the past six months. At one time or another nearly every U. S. liquorman has pleaded for the exclusive right to market Cuba's rum after Repeal (TIME, Oct. 9). The better to hear the suits, aging Henri Schueg, son-in-law of the founding Facundo Bacardi and present head of the House, journeyed to Manhattan last month. Last week shrewd old Henri Schueg announced that he had at last found a suitable suitor-the importing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Most...
...Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling boy and a short, plump-cheeked boy-Henry Wetter Jr., 15, son of a Memphis, Tenn. stove manufacturer, and Phelps Newberry Jr., 15, son of a Detroit banker, grandson of onetime Senator and Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry. Apprehensively the two lugged five suitcases, noiselessly as possible lest some sharp-eared master hear...
...Marshall Field III held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...