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...cynical Ecuadorian once told Author Ludwig Bemelmans: "We have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past two and our Government is run like a nightclub." But last week's uprising, which gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found him a difficult and somewhat messianic man who talked about despoiling grafters...
...ahead and turn this country into a continuous brawl, and Government will chain you both...
These charges made most life-insurance men, who regard their companies as models of business propriety, hopping mad. But they were determined not to get into an uncontrollable brawl. They left all the talking to the president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers' Association, staid Henry William Manning. Snorted Mr. Manning: "The investigation is farcical as well as political and needlessly disturbing to 4,000,000 policyholders...
Marks put Paper Doll on the market, but it was still a flop. By the early '30s Johnny Black had given up music to run a roadhouse near Hamilton, Ohio. Outside this resort in 1936, in a brawl with a customer over 25?, Johnny Black was knocked down. His head hit the pavement, and his assailant drove off. Three days later Johnny Black was dead...
...Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce. But the fun all remains well within Hays office limits and thrives on the milk-fed energy of its participants...