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Shortly after Senator Huey P. Long got a black eye for committing a nuisance in the Sands Point (L. I.) Bath Club washroom and invited the Roosevelt Administration to "go to hell" before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, a Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister...
...inspiring name, but few Britons outside the pale of highest Empire finance have ever heard of him. Last New Year's Day small notice was taken when the King-Emperor made Sir Frederick Leith-Ross a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Soon afterwards the City heard that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire's War debt to the U. S. He sailed last week on the Majestic...
...Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn from its financial camorra, and the assumption is that a man's purse liea nearest his heart. Yet without even a Mencken editorial the magazine manages to decline gracefully. To the college student an article by one E. H. Orr on "The Impossibility of Education" is the piece do resistance...
...crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with him on a Gulf Refining Co. program...
...forward masculinity is unrestrained by wing collar or the stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning his bear operations with success. This is accomplished before anyone has the presence of mind to look out the window...