Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this old piece of political linen went out on the public line when large Pierre du Pont and small John Raskob trudged into Manhattan's Old Postoffice Building for hearings-Mr. du Pont's to come first-before the Board of Tax Appeals. Both readily admitted that their deal had been solely for tax purposes, but contended that the sales had been strictly bona fide, with each man repurchasing his stock at the market. It was up to the Government to prove that they had broken the law against an "agreement, plan or understanding to repurchase...
...Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard as he drives his staff, appearing frequently at his office at 5 a. m., having breakfast sent in, working through to suppertime. Prone to establish rigorous routine, he wears black ties year round, blue suits winters, white linen summers. Another personal idiosyncrasy: he hates suspenders, ridicules staffmen who wear them, calls them "sissy." Accustomed to bossing his own business, he champions local causes; alienated the advertising of a Nashville store by exposing its sale of shoddy blankets to flood sufferers; drove loan sharks out of Nashville by publicity...
...Soviet official is Supreme Court Judge Karl Lintin. The Soviet Loeb-Leopold pair, instead of murdering a Communist Bobbie Franks, were responsible for the death of Mrs. Lintin. Her son, a "mama's darling" of 16, is described as having always worn silk shirts and having his bed linen changed daily...
Robert Taylor lives in a small Beverly Hills house, keeps a Ford coupe for going to work and a Packard convertible for pleasure, has a valet. He wears berets, blue and white checked bathrobes, blue linen beach suits. Last summer, his association with Barbara Stanwyck was the most publicized Hollywood romance of the year outside of Mary Astor's. Currently, the Stanwyck-Taylor partnership, one of the conventions of which was that each gave the other an expensive present every week, is thought to be cooling. Last week, Robert Taylor announced he would travel to Washington with Jean Harlow...
...would have been proclaimed as the defender of academic freedom. Instead he has allowed himself, perhaps unjustly, to be branded as a politician glad to see one of his enemies "embarrassed," even if in the process his state university is subjected to the indignity of washing its dirty linen in public. New York Herald-Tribune