Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days...
Astonished by the smitch of dust from their own files, Prosecutor Courtney's lawyers wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had to come up the hard way. . . . Pegler . . . goes back 18 years for dirt to smear me with, is running interference for his plutocratic friends in Hollywood who are attacking me because I am fighting for the little fellows in the picture studios...
DESIGNS IN SCARLET-Courtney Ryley Cooper-Little, Brown...
...they want to find out, let them read Designs in Scarlet. The customer was Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...
Record and the Red-baiting Tribune. This combination produced a Kelly steamroller of 604,000 votes that flattened Renegade Courtney...