Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is the usual comedy of an inefficient shoe salesman who accidentally rises in social standing for an evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point...
...stockholders may know what is being done with their money. Bankers went further, said that hereafter brokerage houses should not be allowed to run investment trusts. Although a new management-which includes Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp.; William Frye Cutler, vice president of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.; Clarence Dauphinot, president of Frederick H. Hatch & Co.; Philip De Ronde, president of Hibernia Trust Co.; George Kenan Morrow, chairman of Gold Dust Corp.-has taken hold of Prince & Whitely Trading Corp., the situation indicates that this form of financing will continue to decline in popularity...
...Feet First he is more than a human fly. Through the first three-quarters of the picture he is funny with his characteristic and workmanlike kind of comedy. He is an ambitious salesman in a Honolulu shoe store who falls in love with a girl whom he takes for an heiress but who is really a private secretary. Fortunately, not much attention is paid to the plot, except as a framework for gags. Such a gag is the sequence in which he makes some light social remarks about a titled Englishwoman whose name happens to be the same as that...
...gallant crew, that old gang of childhood. Nine-year old fancy toyed willingly with the pathos of Old Mother Hubbard and the little dog gazing ever so wistfully at a blank and bare chipboard. Swarms of children, with the readers among them, often gamboled gleefully over a battered shoe very much down at the heel, while the Old Woman Who Lived There watched their prancings in despair. And Mother Goose, fittingly astride a whiskery broomstick reigned proudly over her host of youthful subjects...
...McCrory Stores Corp 29,219,677 29,760,117 -1.8 National Bellas Hess 25,475.694 36,648,025 -30.4 *Daniel Reeves, Inc 25,330,665 24,672,126 4-2.6 F. & W. Grand Silver 25,168,902** 19,458,560 + 29.3 *Melville Shoe 21,097,025 18,621,253 + 13-3 Childs Co 19.939-873 20,861,030 -4.4 J. J. Newberry 19,369,828 17,487,496 + 10.7 Schulte-United...