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...campaigns in the '20s. The Colonel inaugurated a series of articles on points of interest in Chicago-a well-worn reminder that he loves the town in which he has so large a proprietary interest. (The trouble with New York, says the Colonel, is that it has a bigshot complex.) Belatedly the Tribune started a campaign to get more defense work for Chicago. To offset the Field paper's $10,000 name contest the Tribune ran a half-dozen contests-$10,500 for a new U.S. operetta, $10,000 for easy answers to a State-capital contest...
...chieftains as William Hutcheson, Executive Council bigshot...
Enter, at this point, a Japanese bigshot: Itaru Tatibana, 39, a lieutenant commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Registered on alien lists as a language student at the University of Southern California, Tatibana put up the money to pay for Al Blake's snooping. Altogether, Al got several thousand dollars from the Japanese, turned it all over to U.S. officials. He made two trips to Hawaii. The Navy handed him some obsolete data, reports of firing practice on the U.S.S. Phoenix last February, several ancient code books. These Al passed on to his employers...
...book contains something more than a wealth of anecdotes about W. C. Durant, William Knudsen, Henry Ford, the Dodge Brothers, the Fisher Brothers, many another automotive bigshot-something not generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which...
...ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy, conniving father, a onetime impresario of trained seals, who launches his son's ring career in order...