Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blunt talk going on in the cloakrooms at the Capitol, of followers who accused him of everything from aspirations for a third term, to a desire to promote Son James for President. He needed no eyeglasses to see for himself how his own majority leader, Senator Joseph T. Robinson (president of the Jefferson Islands Club), was on a rampage over the relief bill (see below). With his three-day propinquity and personality he hoped to close the political gap before it was too late, and all Washington was on its toes to see how successful he would...
...Robinson of Philadelphia, U. S. amateur heavyweight champion, scored the evening's sensation. Given the edge over Nino Paoletti, Italian champion, after the first round, Robinson promptly staggered from a right to the jaw, slumped to the floor. Rising on Referee Jack Dempsey's count of nine, he wobbled through the rest of the second round, toppled Paoletti in the third, won the decision...
...Choice Captains Courageous (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy); Wake Up and Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way for Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt); I Met Him in Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas...
...America Stores Co. with about 1,743 of its 2,776 units in the State. It has a heavy concentration of stores in & around Philadelphia, its home town. Founded in 1917 as a merger of five old chains, ASCO was ruled until last spring by Samuel Robinson, a chain-store pioneer who started in 1891 with Vice President Robert H. Crawford and joint capital of $1,400. He now divides his time between Bryn Mawr and Pasadena, goes in for philanthropy in a quiet way, showering funds on Philadelphia hospitals and Presbyterian bodies. In his pocket he always carries...
...Robinson's nephew William Park took over ASCO's presidency last spring when the tax fight was growing hot. He went to Philadelphia from a Michigan farm, started to work for his uncle at 20. He has been working in the same spot ever since, and though the building has changed the atmosphere has not. ASCO's general offices are as cluttered as a warehouse. President Park works in shirt sleeves behind a partition, washes his hands like the rest of the staff at an open sink in the corner. Pay telephones are provided for visitors. Placards...