Word: everetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies Should Listen (Paramount). "Have you ever gone through the telephone book, page by page?" asks Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know...
Last week the House subcommittee which made the Chicago investigation failed to recommend impeachment of the three judges. It accused them of being guilty of "almost criminal negligence," left impeachment to others to decide. Of the many who did not relish making such a decision one was Representative Everett Dirksen. Said this Illinois Republican...
...been very busy. They maintain health charts for all Congressmen and frequently check up on the members' hearts and blood pressure. Most calls have been for colds and constipation. But last Congress Dr. Calver's tiny force earned its salt. Most dramatic incident occurred when Representative Edward Everett Eslick dropped dead while addressing the House (TIME, June 27, 1932). Dr. Calver worked vainly to restore him. More successful was he when Representatives James William Collier of Mississippi, Mell G. Underwood of Ohio and William I. Sirovich of New York were taken ill at the Capitol...
...pertinent facts are that Mr. Everett Sanders, chairman of the National Committee, has resigned. His resignation carries a special implication. Mr. Sanders was the chairman who conducted the campaign to reelect Mr. Hoover in 1932. Previous to that he had been private secretary to President Coolidge. Mr. Sanders, retirement, therefore, is notice that there is no disposition on the part of elements hither to dominant in the party to keep control of the organization. Mr. Sanders' resignation amounts to an announcement of hands off and an open field...