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...entrusted with confidential data." Another secretary might blabber to Communists, he feared. Critics in California charged nepotism. They doubted that Bramblett, as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, handled state secrets. Worried about this political sniping, Bramblett discussed his problem with House Republican Clerk Irving Swanson...
...Swanson agreed to an easy solution. In Lois Bramblett's place on the payroll, they decided to substitute Swanson's wife, Margaret, who would then turn the money over to Bramblett. Result: for 16 months Margaret Swanson was carried on Bramblett's payroll, though she did not work for him. She kept only enough of her salary to cover income tax, kicked back to her "employer" at the rate of $3,300 a year...
Prophets of agricultural doom are fond of saying that U.S. farms are rapidly losing their fertility and will some day turn into sterile wastelands. This is not happening in one long-cultivated U.S. region. C.L.W. Swanson. chief soil scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, says that the farmland of New England, which was not naturally fertile when the Pilgrims landed, has been made fertile by proper farming methods, and is growing more productive all the time...
...booming '20s controlled an estimated $400 million in theatrical real estate. Working 15 hours a day, he survived both the Depression and the influx of movies, remorselessly squeezed out potential competitors. No man for publicity, he kept his 1936 marriage to Showgirl Marcella Swanson a secret for twelve years (until she sued for divorce, later remarried him). In 1950, charged with violating the U.S. antitrust law, Mister Lee disclaimed any monopoly of the U.S. theater, complained: "We have operated with an efficiency that deserves the encouragement rather than the criticism of [the] Government...
...least the third major screen version of the Somerset Maugham story about a missionary and a prostitute on a South Sea island. This one offers Rita Hayworth in the tart part made famous on the stage by Jeanne Eagels (Rain, 1922), and on the screen by Gloria Swanson (1928) and Joan Crawford (1932). Actress Hayworth adds no new luster to the old story...