Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). A dozen short stories, in which Mr. Pyne arranges the destinies of his unhappy supplicants...
...Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then, true to type, he calls her "cheat" and "liar." Even so, Operator 13 remains a sumptuous melodrama, moody, sensational and elegantly trimmed. Good shot: Marion Davies weeping when she learns that the fiance of her Richmond hostess (Jean Parker) has been killed in a surprise attack for which she is responsible...
When Talcott Powell's boss. Scripps-Howard Editor-in-Chief George B. ("Deak") Parker, read his story it fired him with red-hot indignation at U. S. Steel's "corporate gangsterism." He ordered the story sent to all 24 Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land. Last week they spread it across their pages like an indictment...
...session of the State legislature if "hot oil" production was not stopped. What helped provoke her threat was a minor scandal in the Texas Railroad Commission. Six weeks ago the Commission selected as its proration officer to stop "hot oil" shipments, a 56-year-old engineer named Richard Denny Parker. Last week Mr. Parker resigned just before two of the commissioners signed an order for his dismissal on the grounds that under his administration "hot oil" shipments had jumped to 90,000 bbl. per day. Officer Parker, long connected with the Commission as an engineer and supervisor, did not take...
...runners got a bad scare when the commission appointed as Mr. Parker's successor able, hard-boiled Capt. E. N. Stanley who recently drafted pipe line regulations for the Commission which oil men believe will be a major step toward stopping the "hot oil" flow...