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Bishop James Cannon Jr., the South's arch Dry, sounded the same note: "Mr. Rockefeller's attitude is doubtless sincere, but it's not surprising to those who know the influences which surround him, living as he does where literally Satan's seat is, in the home of Alfred E. Smith, of Jimmy Walker and of the Tammany Tiger...
...hill and there is an inn-keeper's daughter who lives in the valley below. The boy is no stiff-necked nobleman; he goes roaming the fields with the girl beside him; and in their lovemaking this pair is as pleasant to see as the Tyrolian Alps that surround them. Though for generations the youngest son of the house of Enna has served the Church, this boy in the feathered cap only laughs at family tradition and says he was never made to be a priest. But one day, when the boy Rochus is in danger, his mother vows...
...gold braid of Foreign Service leaves much the same romantic impression in a young man's mind as do the graceful chain of lakes that surround the University of Wisconsin. Publishing appears as an affable, gentlemanly vocation to the young graduate seeking a job. Industry has lost caste in the last few months and presents an impenetrable maze of intricacies to the novitiate...
Some day some student of economics will surround himself with charts, books and newspaper files and bravely undertake to write a complete account of what will then be remembered as The Depression of the Thirties. Some of his chapter headings may be guessed now: "The 1929 Market Decline," "Tariff Walls," "The Soviet Government as a Factor in World Trade." "Germany's Breakdown," "France's Smart Jockeying," "England to the Wall" and "Artificial Relief Measures Attempted in the U. S." An important subsection will be on U. S. railroads. Whether or not it will be headed "The Collapse of the Railroads...
...notch in the reins so that, when the jockey tries to hold him back, Tommy Boy breaks the reins, wins the race. Most race-track pictures sentimentalize both horses and humans even more than this one, which is, on the whole, exciting, interesting, occasionally authentic. Subsidiary stories about humans surround the chronicle of Tommy Boy. His last owner, the gambler's mistress, is deeply attached both to Tommy Boy and to a young gambler who, regenerate in the last reel, informs her stable-hands of the plot which he has helped to formulate. Shots of Elmendorf, Joseph E. Widener...