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Last month, without incident, Kentucky Republicans nominated King Swope, 40-year-old Lexington jurist, to be their candidate for Governor. Simultaneously the State's Democrats saw to it that the Dark & Bloody Ground's tradition for riotous elections did not fade. In the course of their primary balloting one was killed, several injured and the Adjutant General of the State was indicted for marching his militia into Harlan County in violation of a court injunction...
...About 1909, George Melies, a magician of the Theatre Robert Houdin in Paris, gave the motion picture new life by applying the camera to feats of magic using fade-outs, dissolves and double exposures...
...secret was John Hertz's cordial dislike for the banking house at No. 52 William Street, Manhattan, but Kuhn, Loeb was an enduring tradition in Paramount. Not until last January was the final Kuhn, Loeb fade-out effected. Then the slate of new directors was proposed without a Kuhn, Loeb partner. The $6,000,000 of underwriting involved in reorganization was handled by Mr. Odium's Atlas Corp. for a nominal 1% (TIME...
...Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign the Prime Ministership to Stanley Baldwin. Last week the chorus of rumors swelled, picked out a definite date, the Whitsuntide Holiday, June...
When his withdrawal was announced last week Mr. Weber promised "that as stockholder he would continue to give the present management his active support and assistance." Certainly the Weber tradition will not fade from No. 61 Broadway for many a year. Of new President-Chairman H. F. Atherton nothing was known. No pictures of him were available, and all efforts to learn something about him were courteously rebuffed with the statement: "It is against policy...