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...Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death in 1891, his widow switched to legitimate shows and nearly every personage in U. S. show business, from General & Mrs. Tom Thumb to Douglas Fairbanks, has at one time or another played Elitch's. This season's company features such names as Ona Munson and Kenneth MacKenna. Helen Bonfils, stage-struck heiress to the late Gambler Frederick Bonfils' Denver Post, will do bits...
...tape neck and neck. Both were clocked by their individual timers at 4 min. 7.2 sec., half a second short of the world mark of Cunningham who finished a close third. It took the judges five minutes of rapid argument to decide that San Romani had won by a thumb. Gene Venzke had missed his try for the three-quarter record by 8/10 of a second...
...Justice Van Devanter agreed with what Mr. Cardozo had said except that they held that the law, in requiring the States to deposit their unemployment tax collections in the U. S. Treasury, went too far-invaded States' rights by placing States' money under the Federal thumb. Justice Butler delivered his own dissent declaring...
...automotive industries of America--an immense and dangerous amount of power for any man or small group. That John Lewis is looking ahead to 1940 is a far more disquieting thought than that he is promising the contented Ford employees even better conditions under his own rule-of-thumb and the aegis of his C.I.O...
Delayed when one of the Yale players who was hitch-hiking to Cambridge hurt his thumb on a telegraph pole, the annual Crimson-and-Blue tiddledy-winks contest got under way yesterday afternoon in the Tiddley-winks Room at the Indoor Athletic Building...