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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse & Buggy, or Save the Constitution." In the Republican split of 1912 Boies Penrose temporarily lost his State leadership to the Bull Moose faction, which included an ardent Young Roosevelt worshipper named Gifford Pinchot. While one set of Philadelphia voters was lifting the name of Penrose up last week, another group was setting...
...atmosphere is handled with rare skill; the minor characters have an individuality all their own. As Carol, Josephine Hutchinson is delightful, save for a certain thrilled ecstasy introduced in irrelevant scenes. The doctor is done by Pat O'Brien, with a stupid tenderness that is positively intelligent, but Ross Alexander as Eric is quite uncalled-for; since his last role he has managed to put still another hot potato in his mouth...
...Montgomery Ward's President Sewell Avery last week at the company's annual meeting. "You shareholders turn over to me 100,000 cold dollars, which in your language is a hell of a lot. The income tax reduced it by about $70,000. If I were to save all that is left and the inevitable should come, the inheritance tax would be applied and I would leave my heirs an estate of something over $12,000. "Now, damn you, am I getting too much?" "But," protested a stockholder, "if you were getting less, you would pay less...
...assets of their ailing fellow members in 1932 only to back out later. Apparently the main actor and most eligible goat in the controversy was smart, clean-cut Banker Charles Simonton McCain, onetime chairman of Chase National. As head of the Clearing House committee in 1932, he tried to save the Harriman bank for better times...
BEYOND SING THE WOODS-Trygve Gulbranssen-Putnam ($2.50). The saga of a powerful Norwegian family which dominates the countryside, partly through superstition, partly through usury. Skill in narration, a lyric prose, an interesting milieu, save the novel from childishness by a narrow margin...