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...Said Correspondent Frank R. Kent: "He buttered the editors until they glistened like greased poles in the sunshine...
...Errett Lobban Cord, member of the Committee for the Nation, owning 1,651,000 oz.; Frank A. Vanderlip Jr., son of another member, owning 300,000 oz.; Amy Collins, treasurer of the Radio League of the Little Flower, mouthpiece for ardent Silverite Father Coughlin, 500,000 oz.; A. Atwater Kent, radio tycoon, 675,000 oz.; Everett Sanders, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Randolph Hearst Jr. was elected to the honorable but empty job of an AP vice president. Roy Howard, too, as head of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, made his peace with AP several years ago and now controls six memberships. Last year he visited the Orient at the same time as Kent Cooper, AP's able general manager, and the two were wined and dined together like the best of friends...
Hearst's International News Photos turned it down. So did Times Wide World and Acme (a first cousin to United Press and Scripps-Howard). But AP's Kent Cooper called together his directors and his smart picture chief, Norris Huse. They visualized a nationwide network of leased wires flashing all AP pictures to AP papers 24 hours a day-pictures moving over the wires simultaneously with the news, appearing in print alongside the stories as a matter of routine. The job would cost more than a million dollars a year, $560,000 in wire tolls alone. With careful...
...takes it upon himself to encourage a romance between a pretty acquaintance of his. Evelyn Venable, and his bashful bank clerk Kent Taylor. He accomplishes his purpose when he discovers the balking horse he has sold Miss Venuable can trot if coaxed by singing. After persuading kent Taylor to bet on the horse, he does his share on the singing end of it. While the plot is weak. Will Rogers makes David Harum an enjoyable evening...