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...mistaken policies and a puppet of circumstance; the toils of propaganda, insidious stirrings of befuddled popular sympathy, the operation of businessmen and financiers, had dragged the U. S. into a foreign mess that took the lives of 126,000 citizen-soldiers. There were well-known facts: In the autumn of 1914 J. P. Morgan & Co. became agents for the purchase of war supplies by Great Britain; before the U. S. entered the War the House of Morgan bought three billion dollars' worth of goods for Allies on a commission of 1%; these purchases had made prosperity...
Amiably discussing the song with a reporter, Trombonist Riley told how he had played it on a battered German flügel horn for several months this autumn, how it had become a sensation among metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow...
...also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke his own precedent to the extent of going to England to work for Producer Alexander Korda. U. S. Author Sherwood wrote the script of The Ghost Goes West, but in other respects it was a characteristic Clair production. Producer Korda, whose advice he might well have welcomed, scrupulously refrained from...
...boom sales of Japanese goods last autumn went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst...
After handing the jury a portrait of her shrinking husband in army uniform, Mrs. Spencer got down to the business of explaining why their two daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters...