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George Brent, as Lieutenant Stevens, does a convincing job in his usual smooth manner. Margaret Lindsay, playing the part of the show girl, Lou Winters, supplies the love interest. The two have a strong affection for one another. When a Broadway playboy is discovered murdered the morning after a quarrel in his apartment, the police investigation reveals that she was the cause of the said quarrel. Suspicion falls on both her and her brother...
This settled the result but not the quarrel. Next morning Messrs. Wallace and Tugwell rushed to the White House for a conference. When they left Mr. Peek arrived for lunch and a two-hour talk. Later Mr. Peek conferred with Mr. Wallace. Finally he rushed back to see the President...
Rumpus. The night of Mr. Wallace's remarks to the Press the excited theorists carried their quarrel to the White House. The President tried compromise. He got Mr. Wallace, Mr. Peek, General Johnson together, decreed that all codes being negotiated by AAA should be transferred to NRA, except those for the first processors of agricultural products and for handlers thereof before the first processing. The codes thus transferred were put beyond the reach of the radical Braintrust group, but regarding the codes left behind, the Braintrusters had the victory...
...made Minister to Czechoslovakia with a roving assignment as salesman for U. S. farm products in Europe. Both of these propositions Mr. Peek rejected. Then the President suggested he head a new committee to negotiate for greater export privileges for U. S. products. Mr. Peek considered, then accepted. The quarrel had pursued the normal course of quarrels between government cliques: from bitterness to outburst to balm for damaged feelings. As additional balm, Mr. Peek had the satisfaction of seeing three codes (retail food, wholesale food, food manufacturers) that had been transferred from AAA to NRA approved within...
Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder...