Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married to Cinemactress Betty Compson, who calls him "the Great Dane." He has more drive than any other director in Hollywood...
...phonograph business was logical inasmuch as the old-style phonograph, failing to compete with radio sets, went, in for electric reproduction and also for combination radio-phonographs. Radio Corp. entered the phonograph field by supplying Brunswick-Balke-Collender and later Victor Talking Machine with the radio and the electric drive for their combination machines. Last winter Radio and Victor directors agreed on Radio's absorption of Victor. Radio-Victor Corp. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Radio Corp...
...were asked and answered. The advisability of having a U. S. official join the International Bank of Settlements, set up under the Young Plan, was advanced and discussed. Emerging from the White House, the Messrs. Young and Morgan stepped into the first motor that drew up. Halfway down the drive they discovered it was the all-aluminum limousine of Secretary Mellon. Back under the portico stood Mr. Mellon, plunged in perplexity. The Messrs. Morgan & Young drove around to the portico again, got out. Mr. Morgan tapped Mr. Mellon amiably on the shoulder, assured him they had had no intention...
...Michigan. Last week the U. S. gathered in Detroit and along its rum- reeking river some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went...
Campolo enjoys the distinction of being already rich. Son of a South American cotton-grower he has had three automobiles since he first learned to drive. The late great Tex Rickard had heard of him but just as he intended bringing him to the U. S. Campolo was knocked out by Nebraska's Monte Munn. He intends retrieving his laurels next month by fighting the winner of the Heeney-Maloney fight He said that if he were knocked out in the U. S. he would immediately return to the Argentine...