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...Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with a number of others from Buckingham Palace...
...cinematic running mate called "$10 Raise," supplies the perfect antidote for all this. Edward Everett Horton is a meticulous office-clerk who needs this precise advancement in his wordly fortunes in order to marry Karen Morley...
...party involved was the Sakdal (a Tagalog dialect word roughly translatable as "I accuse") with a membership estimated between 10,000 and 200,000 on the main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently...
Just after she made herself the most astonishing track & field figure of the 1932 Olympic Games, Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, lean, hungry-looking Dallas insurance clerk, announced that when she got around to it she would become a golf champion (TIME...
...years Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith has been a $9-a-week brokers' clerk in Manhattan, fight promoter in Great Britain, biggest bear since Jesse Livermore, greatest bull since William Crapo Durant. The commodity in which he is always bearish is hooey. Every time President Hoover and Dr. Julius Klein said things were going to get better in 1930, the profane, pale-eyed Irishman unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold...