Word: seph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Attorney's office. They were William Bernard Herlands, 30, chunky, pink-cheeked, piano-playing Columbia graduate who VT?.S to become his right-hand man; suave Jacob Joseph Rosenblum, 38, who sent Banker Jo- seph Harriman to jail and might have convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded...
...ever sat in the White House and waited for renomination with more complete confidence than Herbert Hoover. Of the 1,154 convention votes his managers counted on his getting more than a thousand on the first ballot- enough to renominate him practically by acclamation. His lone opponent, Dr. Jo- seph Irwin France, onetime Senator from Maryland, had under definite pledge only a ridiculous...
Democrat Cermak had the firm if not ardent support of such famed Chicagoans as William Ruggles Dawes, Silas Hardy Strawn, Julius Rosenwald and Frank Jo seph Loesch. He kept his campaign on a nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled...