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Last week P.A.C. backed a sure thing, Boston's handsome Mayor Maurice Tobin for the Democratic nomination for Governor in Massachusetts. Tobin won a thumping victory, which proved nothing about P.A.C., but in central Massachusetts P.A.C. lost in its attempt to unseat Congressman Philip J. Philbin. In the labor-conscious state of Washington, most of its candidates came out on top in the Democratic primaries. An active, aggressive left-winger named Hugh de Lacy won out over seven other Democratic candi dates for Congress. In an earlier election, P.A.C. was very helpful to ex-WLB Member Wayne Lyman Morse...
Into the game last week stepped a new player who, instead of saving up the express ace, played it as his first and only card. He was Philip Henry Philbin Jr., youthful, debonair son of a Colorado hotelman, who learned the aviation business as a $1-a-year assistant to President Harris ("Pop") Hanshue of Western Air Express, later headed Mid-Continent Air Express. Last week he announced Air Express Corp. ready to operate a daily 17 to 18-hr. service between New York and Los Angeles, exclusively for express. First flights...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
...Laughs (Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin)-Victor Hugo's novel well done...
...TRAIL OF '98 (Dolores Del Rio on the "fantom" screen), WINGS (Clara Bow and Charles Rogers), THE LAST COMMAND (Emil Jannings), THE DRUMS OF LOVE (Lionel Barrymore and Mary Philbin), SIMBA (animals clicked in Africa by Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson...