Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Clark, Cleveland oilman (TIME, Jan. 27). Last week he announced that, like any modern, well-run body of opinion, the Crusaders will henceforth have a paid pro fessional director who will devote all his time and talents to the organization's work. New National Executive Commander of the Crusaders is Col. Julian Codman, Bos ton lawyer, longtime foe of Prohibition, an early director in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Col. Codman. 60, is a Harvardman. He served with the A. E. F. in the Quarter masters Department. In 1924-26 he was attached to the Judge Advocate General...
...York's unsavory judiciary conditions was Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, who wanted to be governor (TIME, Aug. 25). When Charles T. Grain, New York County's district attorney and a Tammany man, failed to get an indictment in the Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward of Buffalo, who also wanted to be governor. He named Hiram C. Todd as his special prosecutor. Prosecutor Todd wished to widen his inquiry so that it would cover...
...Jack Guzik and Ralph Capone, Al's brother (TIME, May 5). They will probably appeal their cases. Chicago understood that Gangster Nitti was accepting this "rap," instead of fleeing the country as he easily might have done, at the express wish of Alphonse Capone, who felt that public opinion needed a little assuaging. For Scarface Al himself should have put in an appearance in Federal court last week to face tax evasion charges. But he was nowhere to be found. Judge Lyle, speaking before the Chicago Safety Council, shouted: "We will send Capone to the chair...
...self-confident Col. Knox several times offered his resignation, which "W. R." refused, believing perhaps that experience in the big business of chain publishing would eventually shape his man to the ways of Hearst. Last week he accepted it, uttered regrets. Reason given by Col. Knox: "... A difference of opinion as to methods of management." Friends said that Col. Knox had saved all his Hearst salary, that he is well supported by the interest which he still holds in the Union & Leader. To succeed Col. Knox, Publisher Hearst named Thomas J. White, vice president of International Magazine Co., Inc., onetime...
...represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There...