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...spread like fire in the tinder of Texas' best advertising minds. . Governor Pat Neff issued a proclamation calling a Centennial meeting. Some 2,000 Texans came, a Centennial Board was set up. That advertising idea had played into unusual good luck. The original head of the Centennial Board, Cato Sells (Woodrow Wilson's Indian Commissioner) was succeeded by a gentleman named Jesse Jones. An election in 1932 made Jesse Jones and another Texan. John Nance Garner, men of importance in Washington. Therefore the U. S. dipped into its Treasury for $3,000,000, a larger amount than...
...Tyrrell of Avon, onetime British Ambassador to France, has no governmental standing but, as salaried ($10,000) president of the Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...
...carefully that he has been doing no such thing; you were doubtless misled by the article in the New York Times for which the writer has since apologized. However, you may like to see a copy of the letter Mr. Steffens wrote to the Governor, Herbert Fleischacker, Traffic Chief Cato, newspaper editors and sheriffs and district attorneys and attorneys for big ranchers and some State and Federal conciliators and NRA chiefs. Enough money was collected for a typewriter and considerable over. Mr. Steffens was Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Caroline Decker Typewriter Fund. If this be "leading," "agitating," "organizing...
...help her to a machine. I will, if you will. You might induce some of the impartial police, personally, to join us: Chief Cato. for example. I may ask some picked ranchers to come in on it and your Mr. Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen he sees daily. They might have a sense of humor. If the fund should exceed the price of one cheap typewriter I'll keep the difference for the purchase of another if the first one should be wrecked in some righteous raid...
...training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found in the circumstance that Mr. White's father was once on the stage. That he is the son-in-law of Mayor Curley's brother and that he passed up the high position of county paymaster when it was discovered that a civil service examination...