Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tightly-barred garage operated by one Meyer Luckman in Brooklyn the night of March 3, 1935. Inside, stuffed in a bloody canvas bag in the rear compartment of a Ford coupé, they found the warm, freshly-strangled body of Meyer Luckman's brother-in-law and bookkeeper. Samuel Drukman. Caught in the garage, with blood on hands and clothes, were three men: Meyer Luckman, a nephew Harry Luckman, and an ex-convict employe named Fred Hull...
Stella Dallas (Samuel Goldwyn) exhibits an aspect of class struggle which has recently been overlooked: the aspect of simple social climbing. Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) is the daughter of one millworker and the sister of another but when an eccentric Harvard socialite comes to Millhampton and goes to work in his shirt sleeves, she sees a chance for advancement. Soon Stella and Stephen Dallas (John Boles) are married and the parents of a dimpled baby girl, whom they name Laurel...
Onto the desks of the nation's law schools and bar associations dropped a novel legal announcement last week. Distinguished, aging Harvard Law School Professors Joseph Henry Beale (Conflict of Laws) and Samuel Williston (Contracts) had recorded significant law lectures before the sound camera. In each film as introducer of the subject and lecturer appears Harvard Law School's newsworthy Professor Felix Frankfurter (Administrative Law), Vienna-born intimate of President Roosevelt, sponsor of such New Deal legalights as SEChairman James McCauley Landis, 37, who returns to Cambridge as Harvard's law dean in September. Professor Beale...
...Elected to that august senior society of Big Business, the board of directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was S, (for Samuel) Clay Williams, slow-spoken chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on the National Industrial Recovery Board. He fills the vacant seat of the late Banker George Fisher Baker. Some other A. T. & T. directors: U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Southern Pacific's Hale Holden, Lawyer John W. Davis, Boston's Charles Francis...
...during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London's National...