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...Companies' vice president) he began work as a grader when the Union Pacific first pushed into Utah. Together the Wattis brothers built the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oroville, Calif, (a $20,000,000 job), the Southern Pacific into Mexico, the American Falls Dam in Idaho, the Gibson Dam in Montana, the Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, the Hetch-Ketchy Dam in California...
...president of the Exposition, Sir Herbert Gibson, read his address with his back to the microphones, his front to the Prince of Wales...
...Hoover. Long has she labored to build up Washington's Meridian Hill district into a paradise of embassies and official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating $30,000 to furnish the place, $25,000 per annum to maintain...
...Sounded Washington with proposals that a U. S. citizen chairman the 1932 Conference. Germany's representative proposed the U. S. diplomat supposed to be President Hoover's favorite: Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson. The Irish Free State, seconded by Norway and Sweden, proposed Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Other names frequently mentioned: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. But the reaction of Washington to both proposals last week was negative, and the League left the chairmanship open. The French continued to boom Edouard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. In London during the week Ambassador Dawes (lawyer by trade...
...climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone a rival gunman that Slade is paying...