Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four young Negroes ran out of the courthouse in Decatur, Ala. at last week's end and ducked into waiting automobiles. Following them came the nation's current No. 1 criminal lawyer, smiling, muscular Samuel Simon Liebowitz, 43, who four years ago promised thousands of howling, cheering Negroes in Manhattan's dark Harlem: "We'll march those Scottsboro boys up Lenox Avenue...
This point was made more sharply by Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert of the Federal Council of Churches, who complained that a visitor to the U. S. "would not find Negro and white Christians worshipping together before God, who is the Father of both. He would not find the employer and his factory workers meeting in the same place of worship. . . . The hungry, the insecure and the dispossessed he would seldom find in any church...
...high-ceilinged office-auditorium one morning last week sat Philadelphia's Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson. Overhead whirred the mayor's huge electric fans. Before the mayor sat between 300 and 400 indignant Philadelphians conscious that right was on their side. A young lawyer named Robert Dechert got up to deliver a careful speech. The bulgy mayor listened, cut him short, spoke for a few minutes in a voice so low that the electric fan had to be stilled. Then photographers' flash bulbs puffed as the mayor shook hands with Lawyer Dechert and his clients, the officers...
Divorced. Mary McCormic, 38, Chicago Opera star in the heyday of Samuel Insull; from her third husband, Homer V. Johannsen, 36, Chicago attorney; in Chicago. Charge: cruelty. Diva McCormic's second husband was the late Serge Mdivani...
...tousle-haired, middle-aged artist carrying his charcoal and sandpaper in a tin cigaret box went to Washington one day last week on a routine assignment for the New York Times Sunday magazine. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 57, had done this many times before. He would draw a picture of a newsworthy personage and, while doing it, interrogate his subject enough to make a one-page interview to publish with his charcoal sketch. Sometimes he would jot down a few notes about what the person said on the edge of his drawing, but mostly he relied on his amazingly accurate memory...