Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintain the scale of living that would be required of him in any more exalted diplomatic job. In 1926, after getting a law degree from George Washington University in his scarce spare time, he went back to New York to join brother John Foster in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. For the next 15 years he made money as a Wall Street lawyer...
Gloomily Exiled. Figueira, a gambler named William Angell, and Bookmakers John and Francis Sullivan sang to a grand jury in return for a promise of leniency from the D.A. Angell told how the mayor, with Figueira's connivance, had raided his competitors, had hushed up a robbery at his dice joint. Angell told of paying off in $500 chunks. Figueira testified that Peirce had shut down bookies who did not deal with the Sullivans, while the Sullivans flourished and prospered...
...hasn't been much of this sort of newspaperman stuff around of late," said Variety last week, but now "it's a fresh script almost daily." From the sidelines, Variety was gleefully cheering the new outbreak of warfare among Syndicated Columnists Leonard Lyons, Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. In papers beyond Manhattan, the lines of battle were not always clear, since editors around the U.S. often cut out mysterious references to private feuds. But the columnists were not a bit discouraged...
...Ingrate File. While Winchell and Lyons were firing salvos on the artillery range, another-bore cannon moved in on the flank. The New York News's Columnist Ed Sullivan, whose paper objects to his mentioning Winchell by name, blasted a speech Winchell made at a dinner given for him by the Los Angeles Friars Club. Winchell had used the occasion to pummel some of the "ingrates" who surround him, including Drew Pearson. Reported Winchell, reprinting a West Coast newspaper report: " 'WW said [at the Friars' dinner that] Pearson latched onto WW's gimmick of announcing...
...Sullivan, the Friars dinner for Winchell was sheer "hokum," since the Friars permitted a "visiting newspaperman" (i.e., Winchell) "to acknowledge the dinner in his honor by blasting other New York newspapermen." But Winchell, as usual, had the last nasty word. This week, without mentioning his name, he suggested that Sullivan was nothing but a "style-pirate," just like all the other "3-dot larcenists whose letters of 'gratitude' are in the Ingrate File...