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...ranks of the accused that last week only eight of those originally indicted remained in court to hear sentences passed against them. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan began by imposing five years imprisonment on Canfield Hartzell. Hartzell's brother Oscar had started out as a "Drake Estate" sucker, gone to England in 1922. switched to the receiving end of the racket and ended up with a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth. Again on trial in Chicago, Oscar Hartzell had maintained a moody silence which he did not break until last week...
...Suckers- Many white men personally familiar with events in Ethiopia since then say that the Emperor for years played Italian and other foreign concessionaires for suckers until Benito Mussolini gradually evolved his theory that the White Race is being aggressively menaced and must recover the dynamic attitude of Victorian England or ultimately suffer eclipse. Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates. As soon as it was in working order, His Majesty turned around and fired...
Another thoroughly vital figure who finds himself appalled by irrepressible Billy Rose is Playwright MacArthur, husband of Actress Helen Hayes. Rollicking around rehearsals last week Mr. MacArthur greeted Angel Whitney with "Hello, sucker!" every time they met, forecast: "This thing is either going to be the most fabulous success or the most fantastic failure that ever hit New York...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...
...York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange where he soon began riding Radio from $25 a share to a high of $549. Good Humor's creator was Harry B. Burt, a Cleveland candymaker, who took the name from one of his earlier creations, a clear candy sucker. Chocolate-coated ice cream was already the province of Eskimo Pie. But ice-cream-on-a-stick was new, patentable...