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110th Company; Riley, S. Woods, r.e.; Lepper, Carden, r.t.; Conley, r.g.; Bowley, Haight, c.; Oakland, Durant, l.g.; Gowash, l.t.; Flahwick, R. Woods, Ryland, l.e.; Nissen, Tierney, q.b.; Genna, Blakely, r.h.b.; Barthelmess, LeBlane, l.h.b.; Vitale, King...
...delicacy of the issue is Mr. Mencken's thin contribution. By a series of magnificent obiter dicta he manages to make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this...
...Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse the New Yorkers are types with whom cinemaddicts should be more familiar-two important gangsters, a socialite lawyer and miscellaneous strumpets, all briskly engaged in alcoholism, murder and adultery. Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) loses his fiancee because she disapproves of his friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last. His fiancée's next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse...
...stock at about $1,350 a share (1929 earnings were $55 a share and later earnings declined). He actually succeeded in maintaining the price in that neighborhood until April 1932. At that time the Harriman National took over Liberty National Bank (founded in 1923 by William C. ["Bull"] Durant) paying one share of its own stock for 180 shares of the Liberty. About that time, too, the U. S. Attorney began investigation, fruit of which was the charge last week that Joe Harriman had used $1,661,170 of the $25,000,000 of deposits in the bank to maintain...
...addition to the letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressed to D. S. Carmichael '35, there is Will Durant's comment on the President-elect: "This is a civilized man; he could look Balfour or Poincare in the face." For the Republican-minded there is President Hoover's signature on a program for the 56th American Bankers' Convention...