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...Chairman William E. Humphrey of the Federal Trade Commission last week assured Congress that he would even inquire into the political activities of the companies.† He intimated that his reports would soon appear. But observers of the Federal Trade Commission's activities skeptically pointed out that its latest map of the U. S. power industry was made in 1925; that for three months a revised map has been in preparation, that not for another three months will it be finished, that then at once it will be obsolete. There are in the U. S. (at latest count...
Last week Mr. Kennedy took his latest reward. With Blair & Co., Lehman Bros, and other financial associates he bought a large block of K. A. O. stock. The K. A. O.'s board of directors met and elected as president E. F. Albee, as executive vice president Marcus Heiman, as chairman of the directorate Joseph P. Kennedy...
...into the movies; five years ago he came back to the stage and took over Frank Bacon's part in Lightnin'. Last week, divorced from his first wife because he had made too realistic love to his cinematic heroines, Thomas Jefferson announced his intention of marrying the latest one of these, Daisy M. Robinson...
...suavest man that ever picked up a 25¢ tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal...
...with Latin and Greek and a daily column of the dictionary by heart); the second in devotion to music, of which he is an accomplished votary; the next twelve in British diplomatic service to many strange countries; the next in writing erudite tracts on geology and archeology; and the latest twelve in more artistic though no less studied writing. His South Wind, which the needy author sold outright for ?75, is an esoteric masterpiece of exotic beauties, which has nevertheless gained wide enough appeal to be published in a cheap popular edition...