Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back home in Independence, Alf Landon spent four years in a bank, then plunged into the oil business as an independent producer like his father. In that arduous and risky line-by enterprise, hard work, fair dealing and stiff bargaining-he made a fortune which is now estimated at from $250,000 to $2,000,000, invested chiefly in some 100 Kansas and Oklahoma wells he still owns. He also, in his comings & goings in search of oil, made friends all over Kansas. Shortly after his first wife died in 1918, Alf Landon volunteered for Army Service, was called...
...Landon has been an able Governor of Kansas. Honestly provincial, he is devouring stiff economic and social treatises, trying hard to push his mental horizon beyond Kansas plains. Of his capacity to fill the White House chair, his friend William Allen White devoutly declares: "If a man has any latent subconscious powers they are aroused by the overwhelming responsibility. ... I am inclined to believe that Landon would rise to it. I don't know. No man knows. I don't think he knows...
Paul, Minn., skinny, shivering Public Enemy No. 1, still wearing the stiff straw hat in which he was captured, was dragged from the airplane's cabin, rushed to the Federal building...
...widow from Monte Carlo," with Dolores Del Rio and Warren William, there is much conniving and excited scheming concerning a Duchess (Dolores) who wants to get away from her stiff-necked relatives and friend (Colin Clive) to whom she is engaged. Warren William, who kisses her twice before he has met her, wins the duchess by helping her out of her pickle. It is all very amusing, with good dialogue and a decent enough rehash of the old Idle Rich-Idle Nobility plot sequence to command interest. Warren Hymer is good as an American gangster who steals back a letter...
...JOHN OF AUSTRIA-George Slocombe-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Scholarly life of the illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who stopped the Moslems at Lepanto in 1571. For those who like their history in stern, stiff doses...