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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after oil was struck on his mother's farm (TIME. Feb. 2, 1931), told a newsman in Manhattan: "I'm having fun . . . but it won't last long. You can't enjoy yourself when you get rich. . . . You're the first man I've talked to in six months who didn't ask me to give him some money to pay his grandmother's hospital bill. ... I took the job as mayor because the town was getting overrun with the wrong kind of people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail...
...presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby, Roscoe Ates, Edna May Oliver and George Arliss. A girl named Kitty Kelly sings three Gershwin songs from the stage version of Girl Crazy ("I've Got Rhythm." "Bidin' My Time," "Not for Me"). Eventually the happy adjustment of a minor romance between the dude rancher (Eddie Quillan) and a coy Arizonan (Arline Judge) serves as an excuse to end the picture. Typical shot: Wheeler & Woolsey tweaking the nose of a wild west villain (Stanley Fields...
Into a Congressional committee room in Washington, D. C. stepped Owen D. Young and wearily dropped into a chair. He was sightseeing, he explained. He needed rest while his son Dick, 12, climbed to the Capitol dome. Said Banker Young: "I've brought each of my children to Washington on Easter when they reached 12. He is the last. ... I have found how much [the Government] offers physically to the taxpayer. Before I return home I expect to be a qualified guide...
...rich and comely lion-hunter (Catherine Dale Owen), not a bit like Anne Morrow. It looks for a time as though the valiant aeronaut were guilty of treachery to the girl back home, who had sacrificed some property to finance the exploit. But in the end-you've guessed it-he renounces "the hero racket" over the radio, returns quite chastened to his native Maine, his twangy rustic cronies and his girl...
...Century a certificate of convenience & necessity to carry intrastate passengers on a route paralleling American Airways. Three days after his return President Coburn summoned all office employes into the maple-paneled board room, gripped the back of a chair, bade them goodby. Said he at the end, "I've had such a good time," and walked out in tears...