Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee, got to be a bank vice president in Arkansas whence he was hired in 1922 by Lord & Taylor. Manhattan department store, as its treasurer. Five years later he became president of Gimbel Bros, store in Pittsburgh, there stumbled through a back door to the publishing business when William Randolph Hearst bought the store's radio broadcasting station for $900,000. In course of the negotiations Mr. Hearst hired Mr. Hammond...
Graduated by Virginia's Polytechnic Institute in 1895, young Dodd went to Germany, took his Ph. D. at the University of Leipzig. Later he taught history at Randolph-Macon, went to the University of Chicago in 1908. A professorial friend of Professor Woodrow Wilson, he went frequently to the White House, in Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson...
...wants to live "the free life." Cynthia Warren is first seen in her studio putting the last touches on an advertising poster while admiring friends ply her with cigarets, drink and music. To the telephone calls of people begging for her work she is disdainfully aloof. Randy Morgan (Randolph Scott) is the only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information that on his English estate there is a pool where Poets Byron...
...represent either Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or Eugene Lorton of the Tulsa World, opened the bidding at $250,000, the minimum set by the court. At $300,000 Mrs. McLean's lawyer, Nelson Hartson, chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed to a struggle between Hearst's Lawyer...
Never naive, usually well-informed about the people he met, on one occasion Bennett was a little slow on the uptake. After a lunch with Mrs. William Randolph Hearst he confided to his Journal: "The lunch was a great lark, and I enjoyed it. Mrs. Hearst very pretty, even beautiful and well preserved. She had a 'down" on film-stars...