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...Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that the motto on one of the tombstones-"Be Not Afraid"- may be even better for a live man than...
...myself in the business of helping some of my fellow citizens learn how to be authors, I have read with great interest your quotation from the Author & Journalist in your April 17 issue, which you entitled "Drivel Racket." I know the author of the article you quoted and can vouch for his complete sincerity in his exposure of the gyp games in the literary instruction field...
Early this summer when Professor Frankfurter was suggested as a possibility for the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench, Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School, said of him, "Professor Frankfurter's very great abilities are to well and too widely known to make it needful for anyone to vouch for them. His abilities and his acknowledged placed as one of the leaders in thought among lawyers and law teachers speak for themselves." At the same time, he was termed as one of ablest and most profound members of the legal profession in the country by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, retired associate...
...Manhattan Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, who, 68, is just twice as old as Dr. Rhoads, demonstrated how stanch a friend he is to every member of his staff. They had worked together for two years on the in fantile paralysis problem, and Dr. Flexner could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken...
...cotton night shirt, between cotton sheets, Governor Long signed a cotton bill designed to outlaw the nation's greatest cash crop next year. After cameramen had recorded the scene, Governor Long announced to the Press: "If the other cotton-growing States will follow Louisiana's lead, I will personally vouch for 20^ cotton. It's all right to call on Hercules but we must put our shoulders to the wheel ourselves...