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...shrewd and amusing businessman is Proprietor Ernest L. Byfield of Chicago's Sherman, Ambassador, Ambassador East and Fort Dearborn hotels and the College Inn. No conventional, money-grubbing innkeeper is he but an executive with a highly developed social life, a flair for fun. When he was approached by newshawks last week on the subject of gigolos, he gave out this grave statement...
...expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor of the Treasury overlooking statues of Alexander Hamilton and William Tecumseh Sherman, with the Potomac beyond. So preoccupied was the Treasury's Undersecretary with the debt negotiations that he cancelled his usual Friday-to-Monday holiday at his summer home in Westbury, L. I. Miss Beatrice Todd, Mr. Mills's admiring secretary, has rarely worked harder or later at the Treasury than...
...Commission ruled against it. Summing up for RCA, Louis Titus, chief attorney, declared an "unspeakable disaster" would follow the Commission's refusal to renew RCA licenses. His prime legal argument was that Congress meant to put off the air as unfit only those who criminally violated the Sherman Act, not those who merely broke the civil provisions of the Clayton...
Forrest's name became a byword in the West. When with 500 men he captured 1,700 Federals, ecstatic Southerners dubbed him the Wizard of the Saddle. Sherman vowed he would get him "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury. There will never be peace in Tennessee until Forrest is dead!" But when his was the last organized Confederate force in the West, when news came of Lee's and Johnston's surrenders, Forrest knew the game was up. His men crowded round him, begged him to lead them to Mexico to avoid surrendering. He was tempted...
...Keith's--"Bachelor Apartment". Lowell Sherman and Irene Dunne in a sprightly comedy. This also marks the return of Mae Murray to films after a long absence...