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...this is contained in the auto-advertising slogan of: "Don't Knock, Boost"; but to boost successfully something apparently has to be knocked, which, while amusing the gum-chewers also serves to maintain the world's greatest newspaper...
Engagement denied. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman; McAdoo campaigner and society authoress, to Thomas J. Walsh, senior U. S. Senator from Montana and Permanent Chairman of the late Democratic National Convention. (The New York Bulletin, Manhattan gum-chewers' journal, scored a "beat" on this news item...
...Week, The most interesting feature of this business comedy is that George Arliss looks almost startlingly like John D. Rockefeller in action, manipulating millions. It i§ therefore most appropriately a picture in which valuable stocks and bonds are bandied about like So many pieces of chewing gum. Arliss embodies a millionaire who takes a lowly clerical job in a rival company's office to uncover a conspiracy, and incidentally reforms his shiftless son and saves him for the daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat...
...HtiL1 gum-chewer/ sheetlets...
Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., fourth of his famed name, aspiring to be a newspaper builder of the nation, recently started two little gum-chewers' sheetlets on the Pacific Coast-The Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles) and The Illustrated Daily Herald (San Francisco). The young shoot of the Vanderbilt stock prepared to branch forth in a new direction with the traditional magnetism of his family. But the insidious voice of trouble raised its head. Could it be that he had not financed his venture in an entirely straight-and-narrow fashion ? Two ladies filed complaints against the Vanderbilt Newspapers...