Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever in the last five years the Navy was up in Congress for debate and action, a big thick-shouldered man in a tweed suit, a red necktie and yellow shoes, could generally be found striding up and clown the Capitol's corridors, buttonholing Congressmen and Senators, passionately urging them to vote for the biggest kind of U. S. fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well...
Last week the mystery ended when Mr. Shearer, to collect a pay claim, filed suit in Manhattan against his alleged employers?Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding Co., American Brown-Bovari Corp. From these shipbuilders, Lobbyist Shearer said, he had received $51,230. He claimed they still owed him $257,655 for professional services. He had, he stated, been hired to prepare literature, information, data, to write articles, to interview public officials and press representatives, to make speeches in behalf of U. S. shipbuilding from 1926 to 1929. The dullest Congressman could see the connection: Big Navy?more cruisers; more...
...million-dollar libel suit last week threatened Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt just when her bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
...Architect Robert Lafferty, both of Manhattan. The model shows Gompers standing on a triangular pedestal with workingmen at each corner, looking up at him, shining searchlights upon him at night. President Green, awarding no contract to the prize winners, explained that the model "might be modified somewhat to suit the ideas of the Council...
Another Croker suit, pending judgment in Miami, is between Mrs. Croker and her stepson, Richard Croker Jr. He accused her of alienating his father's affections from the young Crokers. asked that she be restrained from helping manage the estate...