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Also brought out to Taxpayer Mellon's detriment was the fact that on each of six occasions during this period when R. B. Mellon bought bank stocks, the amount of his expenditure was credited to him on Brother Andrew's books. When he sold bank stocks his receipts were debited on the account. To Government counsel that meant just one thing: Andrew Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, was trading in bank stocks under his brother's name...
...Italian professor is the representative of a kettle "which has crushed the rights of labor and debased culture." Then to prove that the kettle is really much sootier than the pot, the Executive Committee of the League charges that, at Columbia, the Casa Italiana has disseminated propaganda to the detriment of the university. The mildewed, but still applicable warning to those who live in glass houses rears its ugly head...
Beside correcting such evils as irregularity of service and irregularities in paying the creditors of the organizations, any report should make it impossible for one group to break the rules to the detriment of their competitors. This is the time for strong action to assure a permanent and equitable solution to the problem...
Conforming to Hollywood standards in settings, songs (mostly by Rodgers & Hart), dances and costumes. Evergreen even has a backstage plot. It shows its heroine, the ambitious daughter of a retired stage favorite, becoming a star by pretending to be her mother. The impersonation, carried on to the detriment of her own intrigue with a young press agent and to the feverish anxiety of her stage manager (Sonnie Hale), ends when, on a gala opening night, she removes her white wig and does a modern dance routine which first alarms, then enchants her audience...
...probable that she will never marry. . . . Her training and genius should not be forced, for she is easily made nervous and her mind can be excited to her detriment; in which case she is restless, her control is lost, and she may be more than sarcastic. . . . There is a divergence of views about her and these views will have some publicity. . . . Indeed it looks as if this year should be spent in retirement with as little effort as possible to attain further prominence. . . ." For her tenth birthday, three days after her Manhattan concert, Ruth's horoscope was read again...