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...village of Big Heartbreak, Crevecoeur-le-Grand, about 50 miles from Paris, nervous chickens went to roost, hysterical cows were herded into their barns, and the town's leading citizens put away their shotguns last week after such a wedding as the village will not soon forget. Josephine Baker got married and became a French citizen at the same time...
...terrific title: President of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes of the American Federation of Labor. In Hollywood's studios 12,000 workmen are members of unions that have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures could be brought to a jolting halt...
...connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That same year (1873) Government...
Highhandedly ruling Japan's roost last week was His Majesty's new "Gold-Braid" Cabinet led by handle-bar-mustached Premier General Senjuro Hayashi who had whittled down the customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...
...hysterical money-worshippers. The story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert...