Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the trial if the strain be comes too much for his health, old Samuel Insull taxied or bussed over from the Hotel Seneca to the courthouse every morning before ten. He submitted grace fully to daily photographing and interviewing, nodded to friends in court. Said his old protegee, Singer Mary McCormic, from the spectators' benches: "This looks like comic opera to me." Far from comic to old Insull, however, is the Government's threat: a maximum sentence of 50 years in jail and $250,000 fine. If acquitted, he will be tried under the Bankruptcy Law. If again acquitted...
...year 1934 progressed," Mr. Singer writes in a rapid style, only exceeded in speed by his machine-gun-like line of talk, "all the cops in the whole Harvard College had my name on their lips. Here was someone who had avoided them for two years and they were mad. They knew I was walking by them every night...
...Louis Singer, a proud magazine salesman from Winthrop, has recently published his thrilling experiences in "spieling" Harvard students as a composition entitled "My Two Years of Selling Magazines at Harvard College". Packed between the covers is a rushing sequence of crashing rooms of the "biggest Harvard men" in the Yard and in the Houses. Two years' of illegal presence on the grounds of Harvard University ended only last spring when "Charlie Apted said to me: 'Louis--he called me by my first name--'I want you to promise me that you'll never come into the Harvard Yard again...
...Singer, a small earnest man who flutters and squirms as he talks, still wears his Harvard disguise: flannels, grimy white shoes, nipped-in tweed jacket, and an approximation of the "whiffle hair-cut". He carries a text-book and loose-leaf notebook...
...present head of Singer is a loyal British-born subject of George V. A young lawyer in Hamilton, Ont. when he entered the company in the 1880s, Sir Douglas Alexander was a director before the turn of the Century and has been president for the last 30 years. A conservative. Vandyke-bearded gentleman of a very old business school, Sir Douglas never used to publish any annual report at all. If a stockholder wanted to find out how his company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that...