Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Glenn Hunter, well known stage and screen star, who recently created the part of Merton in "Merton of the Movies" will speak at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Gore Hall Common Room on "The Relation of Acting in the Movies, and on the Stage...
Frank A. Vanderlip, retired New York banker, whose repetition of rumors about impropriety in the sale of The Marion Star got him summoned before the oil investigating committee and verbally chastised, has set about the business of unofficial investigation. He founded the Citizens Federal Research Bureau to delve deeply into the corruption of Washington. To make it useless for anyone to do him harm in hope of stopping his earnest probings, he took out a $1,000,000 policy in favor of his Bureau. Sard he: "I am not only shadowed constantly, but so are those who come...
Meantime Mr. Vanderlip's attorneys prepared and filed his answer to a $600,000 suit for libel and slander which the owners of the Marion Star had instituted against him on the allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing...
...proposal to give M. P.'s free railway passes was attacked by the press. The liberal Star and the ultra-conservative Morning Post joined in heaping ridicule on the efforts of members to save themselves ?70,000. The Post observed: "If this country cannot afford to defend itself [referring to the abandonment (TIME, March 31) of the Singapore naval base scheme], it cannot afford to pay for the luxury of sending politicians to Parliament." Rejection of the bill was forecast...
...College Men's Travel Clubs will make their sixth annual trip this summer, visiting France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and England. Sailing from New York on the "Zeeland" of the Red Star Line on June 28, the group will travel through these countries until August 22 when they return on the "Caronia", a Cunard Line ship...