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...also in paying an additional $20,000,000 for a group of British theatres, that in 1929 his companies owed about $90,000,000, all in short-term loans. In the summer of 1929 Mr. Fox was hurt in an automobile accident, laid up for several months. Whether lor this or for other reasons, neither Mr. Fox nor his bankers took the obvious step of selling to the public new stock in Fox Film and Fox Theatres. Then the market crash of October 1929 threw the whole problem of refinancing Mr. Fox into the banks...
...postal workers be blamed for wondering why they must always fill the role of shock troops? A Bilbo, clipping newspapers at a desk lor $6,000 a year, gets no applause from a sub carrier, trying to exist at $8-or less-a week...
Such a statement is erroneous not only lor Yellowstone but for every other national park. There has been no control of eagles in any of the national parks, and no native species of animal is ever "banned'' from any of the parks...
...clothes are neat but distinctive. His hair is thinning on top. He carries his head tilted to one side. His public manners are easy, gracious. He makes a good forceful speech, never too long. He smokes cigarets. No blind partisan, he is respected by Republicans and Democrats alike lor his intelligence, his parliamentary fairness, his industry. Outside Congress: In Washington he lives modestly at The Highlands Apartment, also has a home at Americus. He is a relatively poor man, with little beside his Congressional salary, now cut from $10.000 to $9,000. He is married, has one son named...
...toying dully with a glass of beer. He wished the newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...