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...dialog by Hemingway wherever they fitted in. When they had to put in dialog of their own they did it so adroitly that only someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant Frederic Henry meets Nurse Catherine Barkley outside a brothel when so befuddled that he mistakes her for one of its inmates. His friend Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), in the capacity of censor, returns unopened Nurse Barkley's letters to her lover when he is on the Italian front and when she is in Switzer land waiting...
...record of Senator Alben William ("Iron Man") Barkley of Kentucky is as follows...
...House, he helped to put through the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. A Methodist Dry, he was not above accepting fees (called an "honorarium") for making speeches for the Anti-Saloon League. As a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee he was interested in railroad labor (Howell-Barkley Bill). His measure, a forerunner of the Railway Labor Act, was not passed but the vote on it a decade ago still serves organized Labor as a political index to determine its Congressional friends and foes. In 1926 he was elected to the Senate where as an orthodox Democrat he took...
Renominated, he goes into the November election against Republican Maurice Thatcher, now a Representative. In Kentucky much is being made of Barkley's tariff and Prohibition switching. The G. O. P. calls him "barking Barkley." No Kentucky Senator has been re-elected in a generation...
Last week Boston's booming Mayor Curley was loudly debating issues with a onetime Republican Governor of Kentucky in Omaha while Kentucky's homespun Senator Barkley raced to Wheeling to open the West Virginia drive. From the American Legion Convention at Portland frock-coated Josephus Daniels orated his way eastward by easy stages. In last week's Satevepost the one-time Secretary of the Navy wrote glowingly of his wartime subordinate, "Franklin Roosevelt As I Know Him." Waashing-ton's chubby Senator Dill was all set to carry the Roosevelt power issue up & down the Pacific coast. As soon...