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Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield) was born in Sedalia, Mo. His Scotch mother was a schoolteacher; his Irish father was in the hay business. The family moved to Manhattan and Oakie went to school at De La Salle High, left school to be a telephone clerk for a brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made...
...result of the Maltese friction Great Britain's diplomatic Minister at the Holy See was withdrawn. Deadlock was complete. Replying to a question in the House of Commons last week, Scotch Presbyterian Prime Minister MacDonald said: "We are perfectly prepared, so far as the Government's relations with the Vatican are concerned, to leave the matter where...
...Imperial Chamberlain, the Sun of Heaven thus signified "general approbation of the Chief Delegate's labors." Patriots recalled that Mr. Wakatsuki carried with him from Japan to England across the dry U. S. 20 jolly little kegs of sakė, though at the Conference he often diplomatically drank Scotch and occasionally Irish...
...Author. Archibald MacLeish, 38, short, quizzical, Scotch-looking, was born in Glencoe, Ill. He was voted Most Brilliant man in his Yale class ('15). He was both football player and chairman of the Literary Magazine, class poet and captain of water polo. He rose in the Massachusetts bar, but some years ago renounced the law for poetry, which he writes intermittently on his farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy...
...chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank to go to Basle was elected last week President and Board Chairman of the B. I. S. As his large, well-knit body eased into the chairman's place, Mr. McGarrah cleared his throat and, with a trace of Scotch burr, sonorously announced as the first item of business that his alternate and technical advisor will be Mr. Leon Fraser, the "continuing expert" who was chief U. S. legal advisor to young Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert. Aside from the routine of getting settled at Basle last week...