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...Illinois campaign for Mark Hanna), switched to banking and excelled at that (U. S. Comptroller of Currency, 1897-1902; founder and head of the Central Union Trust Co.; urged by Andrew Mellon in 1920 for Secretary of the Treasury). He did the War purchasing for his boyhood friend, General Pershing; then straightened out the Federal Budget system; then devised the plan for Germany's reparations and shared (with Sir Austen Chamberlain) a Nobel Peace Prize...
...loyalty, who risked and suffered censure by breaking the Illinois banking law for his crooked-but-charming friend, William Lorimer; who renounced his own ambition for the Presidency, this year, in deference to his friend. Candidate Lowden; and who, even if Candidate Lowden is altogether out of it now, continues unreceptive for motives that may well contain as much party loyalty as shrewd personal circumspection. Should the Dawes attitude become receptive now, the rift in Republicanism would gape indeed, for subtlety breeds suspicion. Vice President Dawes has exhibited such subtlety in the past that his inheritance of the Lowden support...
...importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent. "The air's the thing and before long men who have not had instruction in aerography, will feel that their college training was deficient; and such limitation of their knowledge will prove a handicap. There is rare opportunity for some friend of Harvard to found a Chair of Aerography...
Well, my career in the cinema went right over people's heads and became a financial failure. So I decided to become literary instead, and spent a lot of time in the ris-kay literary invirament of the Algonquin. So my gentleman friend said that I seem to be full of nothing so much as cute ideas, and the ones that are the most amuseing to the reading public are about my un-mental friend Dorothy. Because I use Psychology and understand that there are some people in the world who cannot help it if thier instincks are unnatural...
...Westley, Earle Larimore, Glenn Anders, Tom Powers. Production by the Theatre Guild. Nine acts complete with asides and soliloquies by Eugene O'Neill (TIME, Feb. 13). MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Court procedure centres around a chorus girl who seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets his man (TIME, April 9). DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a place which, to judge by the shape of her bed, must be a swan-dive (TIME, April 23). FUNNY...