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...City, in the studio suburb of Elstree, even in the little dead end of Downing Street, good Britons congratulated each other on a new and imperial prospect for the British cinema. Cause of all this decorous good feeling was a cigar-puffing 64-year-old onetime Glasgow solicitor named John Maxwell, who had just upset the biggest film deal of the year-to make an even bigger one. Mr. Maxwell had as good as bought Gaumont-British, thereby discomfiting two resounding Hollywood names, the brothers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck...
...trio presented to Karl A. Crowley, postoffice department solicitor, newspaper reports that the pamphlets, which they said were sent under first class postage, were destroyed by orders of university officials after their sub stance was discovered. The contents of the pamphlet were known to Greene since one of them was addressed to him, but none was destroyed and only 25 of them were not delivered...
...undergraduates are warned that no man is allowed to solicit unless he displays the official University badge granted by the Business Office. All solicitors are members of the University. A contract from an unofficial solicitor gives the signer absolutely no certainty of fair treatment...
...name of Jim Thomas on record as the source of the Budget leak. The evidence came from a dapper stockbroker named Reginald Marriott. Broker Marriott has in his office a customer's man named Edward Alfred Waterton, who has as a customer one Harold Eves, solicitor and secretary to Alfred Bates...
Died. James Montgomery Beck, 74, onetime (1921-25) U. S. Solicitor General thrice (1927-35) US. Representative from Pennsylvania, constitutional authority rabid anti-New Dealer; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington...