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...last years begging Congress for restitution-came to the attention of Universal in 1928. The studio bought it as a vehicle for Jean Hersholt. When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked on the story with Screenwriter Gene Fowler. In 1935 Universal made overtures to Charles Laughton to play the lead, but Laughton went to MGM for Mutiny on the Bounty. By last autumn Edward Arnold was signed to play the lead, but by that time there was a shortage of cash. Cheever Cowdin's option on the Universal...
...also collaborated on several books, chief among which are "Composition and Rhetoric," written jointly with Oscar C. Gallagher '96 in 1916, and "The Path to Learning," with B. P. Fowler...
...vituperative epithets addressed by Judge Fowler, John W. Davis, et al., .to this innocent and useful phrase be directed instead to those bungling laymen and law makers who are unable to understand it and also (with emphasis) to those lawyers who have asked courts to interpret it in other than its true meaning and so have caused so much unjustified confusion. GEORGE E. McMuRRAY...
...decision was written by Justice Chester Almeron Fowler, a handsome, upstanding, straight-thinking gentleman who golfs, fishes, camps, walks 24-miles to his office every day and will probably celebrate his 73rd birthday this week by a brisk game of curling. Famed for his verbal vigor, old Justice Fowler growled in his insurance case decision...
Ruling flatly against the insurance company, Justice Fowler declared: "If the construction given [by the Court] differs from the meaning actually entertained and intended to be conveyed by the company when it issued its policy, the company has only itself ... to blame, and it is justly penalized for attempting to express-or perhaps to conceal-the meaning intended by the use of a mere mark on paper...