Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which they are committed by time's kindly hand. Alston H. Chase...
MURDER OF A MISSING MAN-Arthur M. Chase-Dodd, Mead ($2). With a carload of near-witnesses, including a New York detective, it takes a sharp-eyed little spinster to ferret out both the identity and the murderer of the corpse in the end compartment. The voluble Mr. Goldstein helps...
Sometimes the U. S. Senate can find out more about a business than even its own officers know. In Washington last October, when Albert Henry Wiggin was testifying on stock pools, it became evident that Winthrop Williams Aldrich, new head of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, was hearing a number of things "for the first time. Mr. Wiggn's testimony was also news to Mr. Aldrich's brother-in-law, John D. Rockefeller Jr., biggest Chase stockholder. Neither Mr. Aldrich nor Mr. Rockefeller liked what the Senate turned up for them. Last week it became public knowledge...
...fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed them that Elihu Root Jr., 52-year-old lawyer son of the sole surviving "Elder Statesman" of the U. S., had been retained to study-and was actively studying-whether Chase had legal ground to do something about the matter. Mr. Aldrich did not mention Mr. Wiggin, or ''former officers" or even "certain per-sons." In fact he did not even use the word "sue." This moderation in the use of words led one irate stockholder to jump...
...Charley Chase has been in the cinema since 1912, when he made his first picture for Universal. He was $5-per-day extra for Keystone, before he became a Keystone director, an actor for Hal Roach in 1925. As officious offscreen as on, Chase writes and directs his own two-reel comedies. He planned and helped build his own bungalow in Hollywood. His hair, which photographs black, is as grey as Charlie Chaplin's. He dresses foppishly, plays seven musical instruments, currently receives more fan mail than any other comedian in cinema...