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...serious drama of the South's cotton belt, full of violence undramatically organized. As the poor tenant farmers' emancipator, Richard Barthelmess lifts his shining face toward a new day when landlords and tenants will "co-operate." Out of Henry Harrison Kroll's novel, able Southern Playwright Paul Green (In Abraham's Bosom, The House of Connelly) has sneaked into the cinema a good playwright's impartiality. The philosophy of the picture is that the rich are bad and the poor are bad, but the rich are bad because nobody has told them how to be good and the poor...
Stricken Stocks. For many a year Abitibi Power & Paper Co., Ltd., owning about one-fourth of Canada's newsprint capacity and a potential million horsepower of hydroelectric power, has stood No. 1 on the New York Stock Exchange list. Last week this honor, alphabetical only, fell upon Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store. For Abitibi was declared bankrupt, its transfer office closed, its shares stricken from the Big Board. Abitibi's troubles were only one storm-centre in the mightily troubled newsprint industry.- Another stock stricken last week was Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt fur Handel und Gewerbe, the name...
Died. Mrs. Madeline Masters Stone, 55, sculptor, poet; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late Judge Hardin Wallace Masters who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the Springfield law firm of Lincoln & Herndon, she was a sister of Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology). She studied sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle and Gutzon Borglum, had lately done a bust of Lincoln as a youth for the Illinois...
Taking George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as examples, the author points out here that they are honored for doing entirely different things; Washington because he successfully carried out a war for independence, Lincoln because he successfully crushed a war for independence. As in these outstanding instances, the book shows, a principle absolutely correct within certain limits may not be so under other conditions. The chief theme of the book lies in pointing out how, in the field of public affairs and social relations, principles equally good in their place often come into conflict, making a fertile field for the political...
...Jewish Telegraph Agency was wrong. No one denied that Col. Düsterberg was a grandson of Abraham. Colonel Düsterberg maintained a painful silence. But the Stahlhelm bravely rallied round their Second in Command. Said Major von Stephani. organizer of the Stahlhelm's recent Berlin convention (TIME, Sept...