Word: sulzer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned by a New York County Grand Jury because of his part in settling a bankruptcy...
...delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska's delegate in Congress. During the War he served in the finance division of the Army, later married a blonde girl named Gudrun Andersen, daughter of a Yukon prospector. They moved to Breckenridge, Tex., the heart of a contemporary oil boom. The night they arrived there was a little shooting...
...time went the favorite prints of 500 Kodak employes in 21 countries. A distinguished jury walked solemnly down long galleries of exhibits, conferred, then awarded the Eastman Gold Medal to Ralph J. Fallert of Chicago for a misty study of coal elevators and chimneys entitled "Towers of Industry." The Sulzer cup for the best portrait went to another Chicagoan, John W. Zarley for a picture of a smiling gentleman in a derby sucking a pipe...
...born of Finnish parents some 40 years ago in upper Michigan. He went to Alaska, got a job sweeping out the office of the Fairbanks Daily Times, later earned enough to put himself through the University of Washington. He first turned up in Washington, D.C. as secretary to Frank Sulzer, onetime delegate from Alaska. Last year he was an early rider on the Roosevelt bandwagon, got himself chosen to the Chicago convention as an Alaskan delegate. Manager Farley, impressed with his ability to forecast political trends, to find out what voters were thinking, took him under his wing. Most...
Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform...