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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Mellon. Back under the portico stood Mr. Mellon, plunged in perplexity. The Messrs. Morgan & Young drove around to the portico again, got out. Mr. Morgan tapped Mr. Mellon amiably on the shoulder, assured him they had had no intention of making off with his unique machine. The next day Secretary of State Stimson reaffirmed the government's refusal to have any connection, official or otherwise, with the International Bank of Settlements. This was no direct rebuff to Messrs. Young & Morgan. In May, Statesman Stimson had publicly announced the same thing: that there would be no Hoover recognizance...
...Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film Richard Dix, usually properly shaved, grew one of those brief mustaches which indicate to the cinema public that its wearer is a British officer. While he is buying her something to eat in the delicatessen next door, a veiled young woman in evening dress runs away from his apartment. Her action suggests ingratitude, for a few moments before Dix had kept her from committing suicide by jumping off London Bridge. In India later she is the blonde wife of a Colonel so elderly and so gallant...
...jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...Chicago Tribune, gave themselves and each other a Christmas present last week, five years in advance. In the Tribune, over both their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph, the consummation of their dearest ambition?Liberty becoming as large as the Post?...
...Next fall, Choreographer Laban expects to visit the U. S. Perhaps his idea will result in a National Streetdancing Advertising Co. Or perhaps he will find that the U. S. is not yet sufficiently ballet-conscious for the idea to "take...