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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made four wills quite close together in point of time. In addition to the will which names Harvard the chief beneficiary there are bequests which give the $70,000 estate to Henry Gordon Thistle, male nurse and masseur employed by Adams, and to Jesse D. Crook, an old friend and associate in the practice...
...granted, and "Mr. Smith" is treated with all the consideration recently shown Miss Gloria Vanderbilt, but Cupid has ninety days to make a comeback. These are packed into sixty minutes of hilarious entertainment, thanks chiefly to the dialogue and the capable acting of Miss Dunne and her four-legged friend. "Skippy," who appears more at home before the camera than when he played in "The Thin Man" and its sequel, surpasses himself and brings up the ticklish question of whether a quadruped is eligible for the Academy Award...
Like private wire tappers, Federal wire tappers work in a number of ways-clipping connections, installing induction coils in receivers, attaching amplifiers to the walls behind instruments and listening from an adjoining room-all of which are frowned on by telephone companies. American Telephone & Telegraph, which appeared as a "friend of the court" in the first U. S. Supreme Court case to urge that telephone conversations are private property, cooperates with Federal agents if necessary but has long been campaigning for an act of Congress to outlaw the practice altogether...
...Deal in Washington since 1933 both businessmen and old-line politicians have found irritating. An amateur politician, he was once the sole Democrat in the Wyoming Legislature and served a term as mayor of his home city of Laramie. A stout New Dealer, he has worked for his friend Jerome Frank as Assistant General Counsel of AAA, for his friend Bill Douglas as trial examiner for the SEC, for his friend Robert H. Jackson as a special consultant in the Department of Justice's trust-busting campaign. An able trial lawyer, he was at one time Dean of West...
...where, to relieve the tedium and pad the act, the girls put on an impromptu play, Redlight Rosie. In Act III, the reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will not be a conservatory. True enough, Margo is shown waiting for her brother in a tawdry night club...