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Prosecutor of the 68 culprits is Victor E. La Rue, First Assistant U. S. Attorney. He is used to wholesale liquor cases. At Rockford, 111., he recently tried a batch of 43 'leggers, convicted 36. But the driving force behind the Federal battering ram against Chicago gangdom was softspoken, bush-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, born and bred on an Iowa farm 56 years ago. When he was graduated from Lake Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...
...Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius...
...quiet man, softspoken, much esteemed, one of the leading lawyers in Panama, the highly remunerated counsel of the largest U. S. firms represented there...
...member is 32-year-old John W. Pope, quiet, softspoken, independent student of values and a firm believer that stocks will seek their values, up or down. All Wall Streeters were glad the Exchange had found Member Pope, who represents the highest type of bull or bear, innocent...