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...thriving Buick agency in Trenton. Mo. before the War, his interest in farms and farmers had been nominal. Pitched into the Governor's chair at Jefferson City by the Republican sweep of 1920 he made Missouri's farmers roar with rage, earned the epithet of "tax-eater" by his expensive road building program. President Hoover picked him for the Cabinet chiefly because he had once been a "Lowden man" but had got a divorce from the equalization fee. Mockingly Secretary Hyde's archfoe, onetime Democratic Senator James Reed, used to greet him: "Howdy, Arty. As one dirt...
...nonsense from the days before he got mixed up with Sonny Boy. That both Warner and Jolson know Jolson's acting limitations is evidenced by two sequences. The first is a flashback to post Civil war days in which Jolson as Gus's grandfather captures a villainous Southern fire-eater and, ahorse, rescues his beauteous young mistress, successfully burlesquing the ancient slave-master tradition. The second is the fade-out?the cast out of character formally grouped on a painted stage with orchestra below and Jolson with his face washed white expressing the wish that his cinema audience enjoyed themselves...
...Just over six feet tall, burly, shy, he has gentle blue eyes, a mop of red hair, his clothes flap on him. He throws an ice pick at a bull's-eye painted on a barn door with persistence and accuracy. He has written one other book: The Eater of Darkness. He works on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart...
...Harlem, N. Y., Thomas Allen, 45, was eating in a coffee pot.* The waiter took his catsup away. Eater Allen went for the waiter with a pocket knife. John Christor, proprietor, shot angry Allen dead...
...Leroy, N. Y., while eating lunch, Charles Drayo read a news item which pronounced Emile A. Gilbert champion egg-eater, he having consumed 36 eggs in eight minutes. Arrogant, Charles Drayo broke 40 eggs into glasses, gobbled them in five minutes...