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...powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went for $1,800,000; Rembrandt's Man with a Cleft Chin, probably a portrait of his son, brought $200,000; his picture of a Man holding the Torah...
Martin Henderson (Fritz Williams), eagle of finance, from his steel cleft high above Wall Street's sidewalk, connives cold-blooded revolution in Mexico. His motive: to irritate the U. S. into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president...
...third day we rode some four miles upstream to one of the highest lakes. We left the stock at the lake, to feed on the meadow, and, following the trail on foot to 12,000 feet, entered the "chimney"a narrow cleft in the granite, some 150 feet wide, which extends straight up the slope for 1,000 or so feet and enables one to get through the cliffs to the upper final slope of the crest, some distance south of the summit...
...Philippines of President Coolidge, leisurely journeyed on as usual after leaving Damaghete, Occidental Negros, where, as in the other southern islands, special orders had been given that fat and lean Filipino females should cease chewing betel-nuts, smoking cigars, ambling about naked. No doubt as the good steamship Mindoro cleft azure wavelets, Mr. Thompson occasionally thought of the political situation in this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos...
Sitting in a sort of warehouse, in a cleft between stacks of books and papers, an aging, well-fleshed man with a baldish cranium and lips that purse above a button chin, has lately been saying over and over again: "Coolidge will be reelected. ... It is a certainty that Coolidge will be reelected. . . . Coolidge has had only ONE election. . . . He will be re-elected...