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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporarily silenced when Fox Film fought off receivership by selling $55,000,000 notes to mature in twelve months. Since then I have haunted Harley Lyman Clarke, who is president of Fox. Also I have haunted Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Pynchon & Co. who played close to Fox. If you fail to silence me, nobody else can. What are you going to do, Banker Wiggin, when those $55,000,000 notes fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Large Ghost Laid | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...respect the offices fail as a reflection of their occupants. One would think, especially after seeing the beard, that Publisher Scripps is the older man. He is 35 to Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...should prefer that you should succeed in being in all things a gentleman, according to the real meaning of the word, than that you should vastly increase the money value of the estate. Being a gentleman, you cannot fail to devote your whole mind and energy to the service of the plain people who constitute the vast majority of the people of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...reference book "Fifty Years of Party Warfare" is decidedly worthwhile. The long bibliography attached renders it of added value to all students in American history. Yet the clarity of thought and expression which characterizes its pages, coupled with the fascination of its subject matter should not fail to draw the attention of the general reader...

Author: By L. K., | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

...would be a most unpleasant task. Without further ado, therefore, let us turn back to Mr. Wynn. He goes through the usual musical comedy hokum in his usual Wynning way. The remarkable fact about him is that, while he is never silent, he is never boring. When the lines fail to arouse the audience to excesses of amusement he invents new ones, which perk up even the rather sodden chorus. There are two moments of high glee in the show. In one Mr. Wynn, acting as a soda clerk, exhibits several of his newest inventions which rival the ingenuity...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

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