Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copey's" Monday Evenings are never to be forgotten by those who have attended them, be he a plain Tom Jones or Bob Brown or one of the famed Copeyites who include Heywood Broun, Robert Benchley, Walter Lippmann, Conrad Aiken, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Dos Passes, Robert Emmett Sherwood, the late John Reed, the late Alan Seeger, the late John Macy. There is a Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world. Every year it brings "Copey" to the Harvard Club in Manhattan, where he reads to a group which may include John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William...
...your excellency that Mayor Walker has answered for his affairs full and completely and I say to you that Sherwood's [the Mayor's runaway financial agent] absence is ten million times more valuable to the charge makers than Sherwood's presence could possibly be. But don't let anybody mistake my position. That the tenure of office of the Mayor of the greatest city in the world should depend upon his detective ability is to me more or less unthinkable, particularly when the committee with $750,000 behind it and the arm of the State of New York...
...Russell Sherwood, who fled the U. S., was not his fiscal agent...
...Honor was at a loss to explain Fugitive Sherwood's disappearance. He said he had tried to get him back so he ''wouldn't have to go through these two days." If the $700,000 was inferred to belong partly to him, Mayor Walker said he "hoped [the Inquisitor] proves it is mine. I'd try and collect it" (Laughter). The lock box, he explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor...
...days prior, Inquisitor Seabury had questioned an old client of the Mayor's, one Abraham Schwartz, showman and realtor. Showman Schwartz reconstructed the scene of the Mayor's introducing him to Fugitive Sherwood: " 'Abe,' he says, 'I am the Mayor of the City of New York now, and all transactions of business-take it up with Sherwood, whatever he does, it suits...