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...Lynne Overman takes the part of a dissolute but good-hearted Englishman, whose debts are paid by his uncle with the understanding that he is to marry Roxy Hartley (Irene Purcell), an eligible English girl. Mr. Overman accepts the bargain on one condition: if he can seduce Miss Purcell in one month, he is released from his obligation to his uncle. Whereupon, incognito, he engages himself as gigolo to Miss Purcell. But her bold and modern ways conceal inward purity. On the last day of the month they take an airplane ride over San Sebastian. During the ride Mr. Overman...
Leading the Parker defense was North Carolina's Democratic Senator Lee Slater Overman, who, with the exception of his colleague. Senator Simmons, has been in the Senate longer (27 years) than any other member. Senator Overman, rotund, white-haired, oldfashioned, declaimed as follows: ''Judge Parker loves the plain people. . . . Irreproachable character . . . honest man. . . . He expressed the sentiment [political exclusion of Negroes] that every man in the State really entertains. . . . A man ought not to be held responsible for what he says in a political speech...
...feeling of sharp-calling Senators. On the floor, pages are summoned from their perches on the rostrum steps by various forms of hand noises. Senator Simmons of North Carolina has distracted more than one speaking Senator by a resounding clap of his hands over his head. His colleague Senator Overman summons aid as if he were applauding at a play. Senator Norris' finger-snap is more of a gesture than a sound. Senator Borah rarely uses a page. As a Senator from Kansas, Vice President Curtis himself perfected a sort of crapshooting style of finger-snapping that...
...Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation in his State...
...textile strikes was taken in the U. S. Senate last week when Montana's Wheeler offered a resolution for an investigation, at the request of President Green of the American Federation of Labor. Quickly uprose in protest North Carolina's two Senators?white-haired, old-fashioned Lee Slater Overman and small, grey-foxy Furnifold McLendel Simmons. They could see no good reason for an inquiry into North Carolina's labor troubles?and antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well as the South. Senator Overman, pulling...