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...Battle Lines. While the Senate might override the veto, experts expected the House to sustain the President. Even the greediest farm lobbyist knew that if the farmers took another grab, labor would shove up to the trough for its turn...
Eagle's troubles took on the quality of slapstick when at the same time Eagle workmen in the State of Veracruz presented the greediest set of labor demands in world history. Plainly hatched in the baroque imagination of some Mexico City politician, they threatened a strike unless Eagle gave its workers: 1) a 25% cut of the profits; 2) a workers' polo field and a stable of polo ponies; 3) an 18-hole golf course; 4) a swimming pool and complete athletic equipment; 5) a technical school; 6) a share in the management; 7) annual free round-trips...
...stirring triumph in moving picture production but rather as the last-feeble whisper of a once glorious theatrical type. But it has George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content...