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...first of his works were volumes of poetry. The whole sum of them was dwarfed by the 1,224-page Anthony Adverse, rale, 900,000 copies, His Action at Aquils just out, the row of Hervey Allen books on the shelf in his Maryland farm now totals fourteen. his membership in college fraternities totals two, Sigma Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: His Bookshelf Grows | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

...Fourteen. Nearest approach to an A.A.R. representative at Franklin Roosevelt's conference was white-thatched Carl Raymond Gray, who at 70 retired last year from the presidency of the Union Pacific and is famed for his modernization of that big line, his benevolent relations with employes. The others who attended were ICC Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph Bartlett Eastman and Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Critical | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...movement is growing. The solitary maiden who answered requests five years ago now has fourteen assistants to help her handle Proven Pictures' four local theatres, the Tremont, the Newsreel, the Repertory, and the (Medford) Square. A couple of weeks ago they went down to Hartford to open their twentieth theatre; they say it's the most beautiful theatre in New England, but they may be biased. It is the first of the chain to bear the Name. They think this is a wonderful idea, and every new house they open is going to be called the Proven Pictures Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROVEN PICTURES" | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

...meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Death at Aunty Jane | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Switching the spotlight to Winthrop discloses the Faithful Fourteen, wasting their fragrance on the desert air. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINISTER TALE OF THE MARQUESSA AND THE FAITHFUL FOURTEEN | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

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