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...egotist, unable to play second fiddle to anyone else, tied to Governor Landon only by their mutual self-interest. To his admirers he is a fine fellow, unquestionably loyal, in spite of a hard-shell political past; to Governor Landon and Liberalism, a bright new blade of energy and vigor who will lead his Party to far better success than all the butter-knife minds who for a decade have been running the Republican show...
...bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer...
...town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power...
Great Bargain. No man to stay long discouraged. Pat Harrison lighted a fresh cigar next day, plunged into his job with fresh vigor. From behind closed committee doors last week emerged the trend of the bargain he was driving. He would retain and increase all the old taxes, add a small, experimental undistributed profits tax for the gratification of Franklin Roosevelt. Cannily Chairman Harrison let himself be overridden when a majority of the committee moved to down this new tax from the 42% high set by the House to 4%. But when the majority next threatened to do away with...
...with the events of 1914-1919. Their blood-red songs electrify a barroom full of drunks in stirring manner, and later the whole bunch does a through job of massacring some White first-aid workers. There is thus very little of the tender or the suave, but the proletarian vigor is abundant...