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...Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, July 4): "The New Deal has sit up labor boards which are executives, legislatures, prosecutors, judges, juries and executioners. It has tried to humble the judiciary and turn Congress into a rubber stamp. If this be liberalism, then King George III, Karl Marx, Mussolini and Boss Tweed were liberals...
...great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange had a new tribe of lawyers: Milbank, Tweed & Hope...
Howard R. Turner -- Miss Katherine Tweed, Milton...
When Mr. Hearst named him trustee last summer, Mr. Shearn called in the eminently respectable Manhattan law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, finally accepted its advice to scotch wild rumors by making the trusteeship known publicly. And in October, Trustee Shearn set up a supreme council of top-ranking Hearst executives: Thomas J. White, chief of the Hearst organization and liaison man with "The Chief"; Harry M. Bitner, general manager of Hearst newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of Hearst magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire services and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; F. E. Hagelberg...
...year business. Reputedly the oldest and most celebrated U. S. pawnshop is that of William Simpson, Inc., which was founded in Manhattan by a family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The present William Simpson, much harassed...