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Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...
Whampoa. With a Japanese war boat still lying in almost every Chinese port last week, numberless Chinese fled inland from their homes. Ten thousand fled from President Chiang's own Nanking. Then in Nanking arrived British Minister Sir Miles Lampson and U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson with his bride. Chinese who had fled at once came back. The Japanese war boats in the harbor would not fire, figured the Chinese, so long as there was any risk of hitting Sir Miles or the Johnsons, bride & groom...
...presumptuous of me to attempt to lay down rules for the conduct of others, but I don't mind telling you what my own rules of conduct have been. They are like so many lamp posts guiding me through life's pathway and they have guided numberless of my coworkers...
...redheaded actresses under contract, Fox has only three brunettes, none of them important: Maureen O'Sullivan, Fifi Dorsay and Sally Eilers. Newsworthy were these precipitations of the conference season that has been raging for the past three weeks in the film industry. Salesmen were exhorted; company officials read numberless addresses carefully prepared by their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were thumped like drums - "banner year . . . ," "greatest ever. . . ." Out of all of which the principal producers promised the following number of full-length films...
...placed, while 44 placed themselves. The men who registered were provided with over 700 contacts with business men representing approximately 500 jobs. Many employers have four of five jobs to offer but these are filled with those who register early in the year, while those who delay may miss numberless opportunities for employment...