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...settled down to spend his fortune. One day in Texas he met an old schoolmate named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result was The Ladder which opened on Broadway in October 1926. Edgar Davis produced it partly because he believed in its theme of reincarnation but chiefly because he wanted to help his friend. Critics lambasted the play, audiences dwindled to a mere handful. This inauspicious beginning cheered Backer Davis who remembered the sequel to his earlier failure...
...stiff shirts and white ties is abnormally high, from a single run-down mangling establishment which he inherited from his father. Convivial, impudent and gregarious, George Marshall is entertained at being accused of social climbing. Once he sent his friends a Christmas card which showed him scrambling up a ladder with a laundry bag on his shoulder. His friendship with Son George Hearst led to his becoming the 17th publisher to be hired by Father Hearst for his Washington Times. In a year, he got himself fired for being underfoot in the city rooms...
...arguments the defense used to wedge a loophole through which Hauptmann might escape the death penalty, five were outstanding. It was argued that Hauptmann had been deprived of his constitutional rights when Justice Thomas W. Trenchard had admitted the kidnap ladder in evidence at the trial. Also cited was his "misleading" charge to the jury. The defense contended that Prosecutor Wilentz had improperly switched during the trial from the assumption that Hauptmann had killed the child by dropping it outside the house to the theory that he had killed the child in its crib with a chisel. Particularly was Prosecutor...
...coffin on their own shoulders, members of the Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
There are only eight other Pirsch aerial ladder and water tower trucks in existence, and Chief Herman E. Gutheim has invited the chiefs of neighboring fire departments to attend a demonstration of his new acquisition on Saturday...