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...company of ex-Deputy Andre Tardieu, quondam French High Commissioner to the U. S., went U. S. Financier Bernard M. Baruch to sunny Vendee to take a "peek" at the "Tiger," ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau, in his lair. Said "Barney...
...Died. Barney Bernard, 47, Hebrew comedian, creator of the famed Abe Potash role in the Potash and Perlmutter comedies, which he played more than 3,000 times; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. His most successful plays were Business Before Pleasure, Potash and Perlmutter, Partners Again...
...Baruch will be assisted in paying for the Institute by the General Education Board, which has voted partial support until 1928. "Barney" Baruch* became a name known many miles from Wall Street when on March 5, 1918, Woodrow Wilson made him head of the War Industries Board. The Board exercised supervision over virtually the entire industrial fabric of the nation, with power to commandeer plants, purchase for the Allies, allocate materials, place contracts. Mr. Baruch's was the "broadest authority and most autocratic control ever vested in any individual...
Rivalry develops among members of the gang for Esther Brinn, 16, respected by all. Meyer becomes jealous. The passion persists even after she joins settlement work and until she marries Barney Finn, Irish reformer-a scandal to all the Jews...
...some time given concerts at a nominal price for school children. There is far more truth than poetry in Plato's dictum that children should be stamped with good taste as soon as possible. Instead of coming down to the level of the audience with a rendition of "Barney Google," the Glee Club will put in practise the theory of educating the audience up to its level. If moving picture producers, radio story-tellers, and the raft of authors of children's books would only do the same, how many "bromides" would the world be spared...