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Tunney. Seven U. S. millionaires composed party number one, headed by Wall Street's bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...
Married. Ruth H. Kresge, 30, often rumored engaged, eldest daughter of Sebastian Spering Kresge (5?-10?-25? stores); and Henry W. Nugent Head, 35, Wall Street broker, onetime British Army officer in India...
...Unfortunately," snapped Broker Blennerhassett...
Summing up for the defense, Sir Patrick Hastings stressed that printed apologies had already been made to outraged Broker Blennerhassett. argued that the ad writer had chosen "Blennerhassett" without malice, "simply as a name which suggests a stolid, humorless, didactic person. . . . Moreover in the advertisement the briefcase of the Mr. Blennerhassett in the picture was far too small for the initials of the plaintiff...
Mirthfully convinced, Hon. Mr. Justice Branson dismissed the libel, ordered Broker Blennerhassett to pay costs, including the fat fee of suave Sir Patrick Hastings...