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...Butler demanded that the bank return them. But the bank's Attorney Abraham Freedman urged that the bank should keep them in payment for Dr. Butler's note, Mrs. Harriman's loan. Said he: "Dr. Butler is a good businessman. He is nobody's fool. He saw the possibility that these securities might fall. . . . And if Dr. Butler were sold out he would be even- his securities gone but his debts wiped out. He took the gamble and should be made to stick to his bargain." Judge Grover M. Moscowitz continued the case. At a Louisiana...
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...passing too close to him; the notorious Dentist Laget who poisoned two wives; the Parisian ne'er-do-well Guy Davin who murdered the U. S. ne'er-do-well Richard Wall for $300; a multitude of arch-crooks, killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment...
Churchmen who distrust Broadway and deplore the crassness of the U. S. theatre have never found anything to complain about in Playwright Channing Pollock. Especially to their taste is his famed play The Fool, which deals earnestly with a modern clergyman who tried to act like Christ. When Playwright Pollock first got The Fool produced in 1922, critics were not impressed. For three weeks it looked like a failure. Then it found its public, ran for a year on Broadway. Five road companies played it throughout the U. S. for three years. The Fool was translated and performed in every...
...What The Fool is to the stage, to an even greater degree a novel called In His Steps has been to literature. Written in 1896 by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon, Congregational minister of Topeka, Kans., In His Steps tells of a preacher who not only tried to live as Christ would have lived in modern times but succeeded in starting a great movement among laymen who pledged themselves to do likewise. Translated in 21 languages, published under 47 different foreign imprints, In His Steps has sold more than 25,000,000 copies, sometimes trailing only the Bible as a bestseller...