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Errett Cord is 37. slim, medium height with brown hair and eyes. Except when he puts on his steel spectacles and looks like a young college professor he is undistinguished. He is a voluble talker with small regard for grammar and no qualm about profanity. He pays small attention to the detail of his business but thinks and talks plans and policies incessantly. He and his whole company believe in using the telephone long & often. The company's bill sometimes runs between $15,000 and $20.000 a month. Mr. Cord's right-hand man is tall, blond Lucius B. Manning...
...Oriel College, Oxford, speaking for the affirmative. The negative side of the question, will be upheld by the next speaker, P. C. Reardon '32. To obviate the additional expense of shifting back and forth between speeches, and to accord with the split-argument nature of the debate, the next talker will be a Harvard man, D. M. Sullivan '33, who will support the affirmative. The last prepared speech will come from England, when E. D. O'Brien of Exeter College, gives a negative argument. These talks will last about nine minutes each...
...born in Alabama, got his general education at Williams College, his law at New York University. He is swarthy, small and solidly built. Membership in the "Dr. John Roach Straton's Sunday Morning Bowling & Breakfast Club" has not prevented a gentle paunch. He is a swift thinker, an eager talker. To him, as to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays. Liberals, workers, writers and bohemians look for championship & defense. Other books: (with others) To the Pure: History of Obscenity ; Censored: Private Life of the Movies (TIME, March...
...advisory body to investigate the benefits and disadvantages that might result to Canada if the Canadian-U. S. St. Lawrence Waterway project were carried out. Known as the best-dressed Senator and one of the best looking men in Ottawa, he has a commanding presence, is a good talker. He talked well last week, showed the committee that he had purchased most of his enormous holdings of Beauharnois stock outright. But he had difficulty in explaining a block of 80,000 shares received, with some cash, in a deal involving Sterling Industrial Corp...
Prospective purchaser of the Post for $3,000,000, is David Lawrence, smart talker & writer, publisher of the United States Daily. The Daily, which he financed by personally raising a vast sum of money from 72 "sponsors," has shown no signs of prospering. In the Post negotiations the names of Eugene Meyer and Bernard Baruch were mentioned by rumor as backers. But why David Lawrence wanted the Post was not made clear...