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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legislative hobbies: silver, farmers, railways. A Senator of so many liberal interests champions many a lost cause. One pet cause backed by Senator Wheeler which won: recognition of Soviet Russia ("We're suckers if we don't"). An expert on railway affairs, he has long favored lower valuations, lower rates. Two years ago he was out for a "Farmers' RFC" capitalized at $500,000,000 authorized to issue thrice that amount in debentures. His big campaign of late has been 16-to-1 silver. He is leader of the Western Silver bloc which has crowded President Roosevelt...
...parties: 1) the owner of a well-insured establishment. 2) the middleman, 3) the firer. An arson-bound store owner can find many a middleman who, for some $2,000, will arrange a fire. But the middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found that women were less suspect in arson...
Adapted from incidents in Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart's autobiography. British Agent is lifted a notch above the level of run-of-the-mill spy pictures by the eloquent dialog by Laird Doyle, by expert performances by Howard and Francis. Good shot: a firing squad dealing with one of Locke's confreres...
...after six years in the business, Albert Richard Johnson has been called "the father of musical comedy design." Son of an agricultural expert and professional Russian observer named Albert Aaron Johnson (Russia at Work, The Soviet Union at Work, Progress in the Soviet Union), he knew a little about drafting when he came to Manhattan from Florida to study with Norman Bel Geddes. He learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office...
...they learned to read. When they were babies instead of reading nursery rhymes I read the advance sheets of the Supreme Court to them. They liked blood and thunder so I read them the records of criminal trials. Since they were youngsters they have carried guns and are expert marksmen. Once, when they threw the Christmas tree through the front window when the weather was near zero, it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head...