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Shoulders & Shading. In cabarets and coffee houses across the land, pianolas are twanging away. Barney's Market Club in Chicago is typical. Says Co-Owner Harry Schwimmer: "When we have a banquet or a bachelor party, they don't play cards after dinner like they used to; they congregate around the piano, throw their arms around each other's shoulders, drink their beer, puff their cigars, and rip off the good old songs.'' But the pianola's biggest comeback is in the parlor. Many buyers are women who recall the pleasure of pumping...
Also named in the grand jury indictment were Theron Lamar Caudle, the one-time Assistant Attorney General who rocked Washington in 1951 with his revelations of tax-fixing, and former Kansas City Attorney Harry Schwimmer, who was already under indictment for perjury before the grand jury...
...Stiles Inc., a wholesale shoe company in St. Louis. In 1951, Sachs pleaded guilty to evading $118,142 in federal taxes, and got off with a $40,000 fine on a showing that his health would be impaired by imprisonment. The grand jury last week said that Lawyer Schwimmer, acting for Sachs, had purchased the "power and influence" of Matt Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle to help get Sachs off. "It was an essential part of the conspiracy," said the indictment, "that co-conspirator Sachs, having willfully evaded and defeated large amounts of income tax . . . should nevertheless escape indictment...
...grand jury listed 24 "overt acts" attributed to Schwimmer, Connelly and Caudle, many of them having to do with telephone conversations and personal conferences with one another. A key specification: that "on or about Jan. 14, 1952, Defendant Harry Schwimmer caused the sum of $1,650 to be paid to Defendant Matthew J. Connelly in Washington...
Died. Rosika Schwimmer, 70, Hungarian-born women's suffrage pioneer and pacifist, dominant figure behind Henry Ford's ill-starred "Peace Ship" expedition to Europe in 1915; in Manhattan. Convinced that War I could be ended by a meeting of peace pilgrims, she induced Ford to head the U.S. delegation, pledged to "getting the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." In 1929 she was denied citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court because she refused to say that she would bear arms in defense...