Word: cadillac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...
...Cadillac offers 31 models in five series. New are the torpedo-type Sixty-Two, the Seventy-Two with six different sedan styles. Custom-built and unchanged are V-16s. Prices...
Last week, when Dr. Leach rolled into Manhattan in his twelve-cylinder red Cadillac for the 45th annual convention of the N. M. A., the storm broke. A small group of Manhattan physicians, led by distinguished Skull-Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But Dr. Leach clung on. He insisted that he had been framed by Federal agents in 1928. "I had only one quart of Sandy MacDonald in my possession," he said, "and I was taking it home for my personal use." He promised to resign if the convention would only pass...
...majority. Robert J. Thomas, C. I. O. headman in U. A. W. also left. Second-stringers on both sides continued to sit in vain with Conciliator James F. Dewey of the Labor Department, who continued to spend his non-conciliating evening hours in the Motor Bar of the Book-Cadillac Hotel...
...Calais, France, a U. S. tourist, miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...