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...Charles Evans Hughes. The red velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even the deepest-dyed Liberal hardly gave a hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State of Mississippi-three Negroes convicted of murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice of the U. S. was not disinterested. With vibrant voice he called attention...
...under way to have it proposed jointly by all favoring Congressmen. Undismayed by the House's new gag rule (see p. 13), California's Representative John Steven McGroarty, who is also his State's "Poet Laureate," last week roared: "We don't give a hoot how many names it takes [to get the bill out of committee]. We'll get the signatures because the members of Congress want to come back to Congress and if they want to come back they'd better get in step...
...will this year make eight Westerns, starring Tim McCoy. Universal will make six with Buck Jones and a serial called Rustlers of Red Dog. Fox. long No. 1 producer of Westerns, plans to make six, starring George O'Brien. First Division Productions will make six this year, with Hoot Gibson as their star, and World Wide will make eight with Ken Maynard...
Monogram's Western program is built around tall (6 ft., 5 in.) John Wayne, born Michael Morrison, Pasadena socialite, onetime University of Southern California footballer. His horse's name is Lightning. Dirt cheap compared to most pictures, Westerns cost from $4,000 to $30,000 each. Famed Hoot Gibson (horse: "Hooter") makes his pictures on his ranch near Hollywood wearing the championship belt he won at Pendleton Round...
...Knox team as hard workers. . . . Nine of the regulars didn't even have any high-school football experience. . . . I'll never forget the day one of our little fellows, a quarterback, came around with a new scoring play. . . . A little later, during practice, he was going hellity hoot. . . . As he dashed down the field, he stepped into a water bucket...