Word: blake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterans, Alva Sulloway '38, and Captain Richard M. Dorson '37 back this winter. Ace polletman Glidden will be a great loss, and Cowles is depending on many of last year's winning Freshman team to fill in the gaps. Coming up from these ranks will be George B. Blake '39, Francis H. Appleton 3rd '39, Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Jr. '39 and James English...
Squash found 60 candidates for the Varcity, including two of the 1936 team, Captain Richard M. Dorson '37, and Alvah W. Sulloway '38; Coach Harry Cowles is also looking for big things from Philip C. Staples '37, a football end, and four Sophomores, George B. Blake, Francis H. Appleton, 3rd, S. Haddon Cunningham, Jr., and James English...
...resuscitate small industries laid low by Depression, the Government sponsors a "cooperative finance" bill. It is bitterly opposed by an evil capitalist, George Sartos (Sidney Blackmer), who fears that his big canneries will surfer. He sends his blasé lawyer. Jim Blake (Henry Wilcoxon), to lobby against the bill, mean while dallies with Blake's wife (Evelyn Brent). Blake quashes the bill, goes fishing in a small town where he meets Charlotte Brown (Betty Furness), owner of a small cannery whose bankruptcy is also bankrupting the town. Suddenly seeing how wrong he has been and how tired...
Idly he picks up a copy of Liberty, reads the way suggested by The President's Mystery Story for a man to disappear and take his vast fortune with him. Blake's execution of this incredibly far-fetched escape is on the way to success when his wife is suddenly killed by Capitalist Sartos' chauffeur. The crime is laid to the vanished Blake. When the corpse he has planted behind as his own is found, he is called a suicide, seems free from pursuit...
...Charlotte's cannery, the reformed lobbyist starts an enlightened co-operative industry which soon brings publicity and Capitalist Sartos to the scene. Sartos recognizes Blake, has him arrested, fosters mob-violence to wreck the cannery and the whole co-operative venture, upon which by this time the eyes of the whole nation are focused. How Blake gets out of jail, encompasses the fall of his foes and the rise of a new economic era brings The President's Mystery to an exciting though hardly realistic...