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...Cleveland Indians baseball club, Charles Bradley was heir to a vast real-estate and Great Lakes shipping fortune. As a banker he early became associated with the Van Sweringens in real-estate, later in rail roads. When the Vans started building Cleveland's Terminals Building in 1927, blunt, outspoken Mr. Bradley was asked to supervise activities. He moved his office from the Union Trust Co. to the site of the excavation. Asked by newshawks what his plans were, Charles Bradley replied: "First thing we'll do is raise hell." The building was completed in record time. Last week...
...film was undoubtedly planned around Edward Arnold, and he with his blunt skill does make Moade a convincing fellow, toying with the farm girl come to the big cit-tee. Uninspired and uninspiring as it always is nowadays, this plot might work itself out through a few scenes of drama, some (in this case good) comedy, and so on, to the final reconciliation. Francis Larrimore would be given her chance to show herself in her debut, and all would be quite regular, and very, very plain. As a matter of fact, "John Meade's Woman" does end with the necessary...
...been put off only because of violent opposition from her mother. This time she said yes. Then began Isabel's large-scale wire-pulling which resulted in Burton's moving up through consular appointments until he came to Damascus, whence he was recalled for his blunt criticism of a cold-blooded Turkish governor, the ruthless usury of rich Jews, the intrigues of missionaries. His appointment at Trieste was his last...
...blunt conclusion: "The case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital [District of Columbia case] should be, and it is, overruled. The judgment of the Supreme Court of Washington is affirmed...
...delivered to the Reich clergy in the dead of night by trusted Catholic motorists and motorcyclists. Secret police confiscated a few copies but on Palm Sunday priests and bishops throughout the Reich bravely mounted their pulpits, read to the faithful the Pope's blunt rejection of Nazi doctrines of "blood and soil" and his sharp protest at Nazi violations of the concordat which the Church "with grave misgivings" had ratified in 1933 (TIME, July...