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...mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more complete than Author Burnett saw him??? a gangster of Greek tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him. The only miscast character is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a tough Italian thug. Best shot: Caesar's mob raiding a cabaret protected by a rival gang...
EDISON As I KNOW HIM???Henry Ford ?Cosmopolitan...
...future lay largely in a debate posted for the following week, on the politically relevant, but imperially trivial matter of reducing Mr. J. H. Thomas' salary. But the question made Premier MacDonald queazy. Two former premiers were to heckle him???Conservative Stanley Baldwin leading the attack, Liberal David Lloyd George reverberating behind, and ambitious Sir Oswald Hooting in consonance...
Clémenceau: "I used to think he was a carburetor,? and then I read a few pages of him???no, he just didn't carburet. He has a kind of conscientious emptiness such as a Provengal would take on who is trying to attain an air of profundity. The Americans who read him between two halves of a football match must have a good laugh...
...dealings with the Senate were the most difficult, the least successful. It took, he realized, a politician to get along with politicians and there his predecessor had had a distinct advantage over him. The men who campaigned the hardest for him???Iowa's Brookhart, Idaho's Borah?were now his chief critics. The apparent uncertainty of his stand on tariff rates had become a standing Democratic joke, in spite of his careful explanation that it was not his duty to legislate on such matters. Some of his friends were urging him to exhibit a new and bold leadership, to carry...