Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware that the public likes to know what becomes of prodigies, Newsman Tom Pettey of the New York Herald Tribune last week set out to find this wonder-child of the last decade. He rediscovered her in a small suburban apartment. Last year she, aged 20, married an ice cream company employe named Harold S. Leach. He works nights and she works days, as cashier for Chevrolet at the Manhattan General Motors Building...
...receive his inspiration from Felix Frankfurter and the Harvard Law School. From Columbia he returned across the Hudson to his home town of Union City, N. J., where he soon entered the firm of Platoff, Saperstein & Platoff. The Platoffs and the Sapersteins were old neighbors in suburban Weehawken. Mr. Pecora took him to Washington as his chief assistant in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigation. David Saperstein used to play semi-pro baseball, now loves poker and the writing of unpublished plays...
...crowning sensation of last week's killings came when Secret Police pushed into the swank suburban mansion of General Kurt von Schleicher, immediate predecessor of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor and the officer to whom it fell in 1918 to tell All Highest Wilhelm II that his army was no longer faithful to the Crown and that he had best flee to Holland...
...ablest Roman Catholic prelates in the Midwest, took the lead in forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white cassock and red skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan, were pleased...
...PINKERTON GOES TO SCOTLAND YARD-David Frome-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Busybody Pinkerton makes more trouble, has more excitement than usual, in a suburban poisoning case...