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...harbinger of ruin and decay, Governor Johnson nominated his own Secretary of State, James H. Carr, 32, youngest Colorado official in history. He asked the Assembly to impeach and remove Mr. Carr from office. Secretary Carr, a dapper, toothbrush-mustached flashy dresser, hired as his attorneys Frederick E. Dickerson, Denver Democratic leader, and George Evans, friend of Colorado's rural Legislators. He attended the House hearings sipping milk for an ailing stomach. The story told in court against...
...Protestantism had produced many an able independent warrior. One such was Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman, liberal Episcopal fortnightly, oldest (131 years) religious journal in English. Munching popcorn and pounding out Churchman editorials on his typewriter, Dr. Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers...
...Last week, when he thrashed Heavyweight Natie Brown in Detroit, the U. S. Press, always eager to ballyhoo a "black menace" to the heavyweight championship, selected Joe Louis as successor to Jack Johnson, Harry Wills, Sam Langford. Twenty years old, equipped with a formidable right hand, polite, a flashy dresser, so religious he sometimes reads his Bible between rounds, Fisticuffer Louis is matched to fight one- time Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera next June...
...Theatres: Tremont "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"; Hollis John Drew in "Inconstant George"; Majestic Louise Dresser in "Dick Whittington...
...trouble with the early type of slide fastener was the display of metal--too much of a suggestion of work clothes. I'm for this new covered zip with the invisible fastener, it's a finished product for a finished dresser...