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...that in rewriting the Banking Bill as it passed the House, Senator Glass and his subcommittee had been dominated by sinister "influences"-namely "Wall Street" and "the great New York bankers." Four of the six Senate conferees promptly refused to sit with him until he should retract his slur. Thereupon Representative Goldsborough uprose in the House, crawfished as follows: "Of course I was discussing issues and not personalities. ... I desire to say that I intended no reflection on the high patriotism, absolute integrity and high purpose of any member of the United States Senate...
...wired you opposing the Rayburn-Wheeler utility legislation. I am very much alive. . . ." Early in the week the Federal Communications Commission stepped in, ordered U. S. telegraph companies to produce by Aug. 15 detailed, sworn data concerning faked telegrams against the "death sentence," destruction of files containing protest messages. Thereupon Senator Black devoted the rest of the week to looking for dirt in a cigar...
Editor Tu produced the alibi that he was not in Shanghai when New Life prepared its gossip about Emperors and had not authorized the piece. Associate Editor Yih Sui, presumably responsible, was shown to have escaped to a place unknown. Thereupon, as a trim Japanese officer watched grimly in the courtroom, Editor Tu received the maximum sentence of 14 months in jail at hard labor...
...phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors and supernatural dilemmas calculated to arouse in audiences a mixture of amazement and despair...
...opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered...