Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armed with letters like these praising his work in the 1932 campaign, and described as a New Jersey real-estate operator, one Samuel W. ("Big Sam") Silverman recently opened offices in Manhattan as the National Association of Roosevelt for 1940 Clubs, Inc., began soliciting contributions. Making an official disclaimer for the Democratic National Committee, canny old Publicity Director Charles Michelson cryptically observed: "Purely an individual enterprise, similar to some of Mr. Silverman's projects of the past...
Prying newshawks last week reported that Samuel Silverman, about to open Washington offices, had a police record extending back to 1913, cited twelve arrests for offenses ranging from assault & battery to bootlegging, a 360-day jail term in 1936 for a bond deal...
Oddly, New York psychiatrists promptly condemned Greenfield, called him a murderer who had simply grown tired of caring for his imbecile son. Toward euthanasia, the medical profession is inclined to be kinder. Laymen were sympathetic, and even District Attorney Samuel John Foley, who will ask a Bronx grand jury for an indictment this week, admitted that he was reluctant to prosecute such "a sad case...
...gone into the grocery trade. With their father they opened a small store, branched into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with its 11,000 items (including 84 brands of coffee), its 550,000-square-foot Chicago plant, its warehouses in 18 cities...
...Samuel Insull Jr., who lost most of his utility officerships in his father's colossal crash, resigned the last one-a $51,000-a-year job as assistant to Chairman James Simpson of Commonwealth Edison Co.- in order to make more money at insurance brokerage and settle his remaining $300,000 in debts...