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...women and children." In 1924 he was sponsoring a charter reform when the City Charter Committee was just getting under way. The two movements merged, but not until the last election did Preacher Bigelow get a seat on the municipal council. Meantime he had worked up a hub bub against utility companies. He had also joined Father Coughlin's National Union For Social Justice, sitting on the platform at meetings with the Detroit radio priest and vigorously proselytizing members of his own private "People's Church...
...Pity Of It All"--Columbia recording. Enric Madriguera's polished orchestra has a very smooth and pleasing melody to work on. Helen Ward and Bub Burnch sing. The backing, "True" is good as a Fox Trot for dancing, but the tune is not very catchy...
...wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having been for a time personal attorney to Oil man Harry Sinclair, he became the head of Oklahoma oil interests valued at $70,000,000, helped organize Middle States Oil Corp., gambled in oil stocks. His bub ble broke when Middle States went into receivership. The courts investigated, dis covered that the firm's books had been shipped to Paris. Oklahoma's Haskell saw his Long Island estate auctioned off, went back west to recoup his fortunes...
...helped her into the car and was glad that the chauffeur touched his cap and said "Yessir!" instead of the "Sure, Bub," which had marked the departure from Harvard Square. The motor roared, a gentle laugh rang out, and he forgot the ticking, ticking, ticking meter...
Here is a clever, biting political satire born of the nimble brain and acid wit of Walter Hasenclaver, "der bose bub" of German dramatists since the passing of the terrible Widekind, staged all over Europe as an example of Hasenclaver "boseheit," adapted as a piece of Soviet propaganda by the People's Commisar of Education at the Second Moscow Art Theatre, and now staged for the first time in this country by the Harvard Dramatic Club on the basis of a fresh literal translation from the German text as the forty-third production of the society...