Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This week, at a quiet sheriff's sale in Philadelphia where the new company was the only bidder, the oldest shipyard in America changed hands. With many a minor financial detail yet to be unraveled, the clangor of riveting tools on the Delaware was still weeks away. But Cramp's already had a firm Navy promise for $100,000,000 in orders for cruisers...
...politics. But no seams show on Edward J. Flynn. At 48 he is trimly built, iron-grey, dresses even more splendidly than Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Blackest spot that Boss-Buster Tom Dewey could find on Ed Flynn was the fact that when he was Sheriff of The Bronx (1921-25) one of his deputies was Gangster Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer (who had much closer connections with Tammany's convicted Jimmy Hines). Last year Flynn learned that Jim Farley wanted to go out of politics and into business because he needed money to pay his debts...
Mary Shaw was a mountaineer's daughter who went away to college, came back to Deer Lick to teach school and be murdered. The scandal that came out shook even the Sheriff. Solution: as simple as basket weave...
...result of the cleanup was to drive gamblers to nearby De Soto County, Miss. Tall, smooth Bob Berryman trekked to De Soto, opened the Paddock (dining, dancing, gambling). A rival house was the Shanty. Memphis newspapers reported the Paddock gambling; the De Soto sheriff said he had never heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming...
...solemn ritual of Commencement Day with its many traditional elements will include the participation of University officers, faculty members, representatives of Church and State, and special guests, in a formal procession to the opening of the ceremonies at 10 o'clock by the sheriff for Middlesex County, and a Latin oration by a Senior...