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...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...upbringing. Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (Princeton classmate of Woodrow Wilson), was interested not only in copper; he became president of the board of trustees of Robert College, Constantinople. His twin sons have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive Cleveland E. Dodge is neither the Professional Executive nor the onetime factory hand. He is the Dynastic Executive, bred to his position. The Dynastic Executive is a U.S. rarity; rare also is the inherited ability of Cleveland E. Dodge...
...matter of a mere 17 day pause in the work of a session. Senator Edmunds introduced a bill to declare that the "pocket veto" could be exercised only at "the final adjournment of a session." Senator Sumner agreed with this interpretation. In the debate on the proposal Senator Bayard declared: "The very object of the clause looks to the fact that the bill should be returned during the session of the House in which it originated." The Senate passed Senator Edmunds' bill, 29:11. The vote means just this: 29 Senators believed that any adjournment sine die would give occasion...
Upon graduation, he refused many an important position in order to continue his career as a journalist which he did by becoming a reporter on the New York World under famed, dynamic Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. After a year, he went with his school and college classmate, Henry Robinson Luce, to be a reporter for the late Publisher Munsey's Baltimore News. Thence, having got as far as they could in spare hours with the Newsmagazine Idea, they returned, jobless and with a few hundred dollars, to New York...
...HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, onetime Executive Editor of the New York World: "It is hard to believe that one so vital, so young, so interested in the adventure of life is now only a memory. I am proud that I gave him his journalistic start and I like to think I was able now and then to help him with suggestions. His ability was deep, nature was considerate. He died in the midst of an unfold that promised much. His friendship, warm and stimulating was a privilege. His best memorial is TIME, which he so largely created...