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...said Big Jim: "Thank God we're getting out of the fried-chicken belt." Next morning Fort Worth and Dallas, where a posse of Garnerites hauled him off to breakfast: Cactus Valley grapefruit, Red River County farm eggs, Blossom Prairie smoked sausage, Garner Camp biscuits, Uvalde honey, Chuck Wagon brew. Here Jim Farley hinted he was willing to be a Vice-Presidential candidate on a Garner ticket (in Tennessee it had been Hull). As he often does, he held a press conference in a barber shop: he is the only man in the U. S. who can talk while...
...with the House) a better show at the National Press Club than at the Capitol. Kentucky's Alben Barkley. whose forte is singing Wagon Wheels, sang it solo for the guests at a Congressional beefsteak dinner; also sang a duet with his onetime foe, Kentucky's junior Senator "Happy" Chandler...
Outside shooting was done in & around Chicago. Lorentz kept an old station wagon prowling through the slums, filming tenements, children at play in traffic, people grubbing refuse from garbage dumps behind decaying buildings. Sometimes the camera was tilted from tenement roofs...
...elected a member of a trouble-shooting executive committee of seven, including Morgan-Partner Harry P. Davison, onetime Morgan-Partner William Ewing, Donald Kirk David (representing the Ziegler interests) and Paul Fleischmann. Last week Standard Brands had other changes to announce. To President Thomas L. Smith, onetime Standard Brands wagon man, had gone the duties of chief executive officer, taken from Board Chairman (and fellow wagon man) Joseph Wilshire. To vice-presidencies had gone two other veterans: Productionman John W. Luce, and Cousin (also Chicago manager) Albert R. Fleischmann...
...eyed Milton Logan grew up in Brooklyn, became successively a lunch wagon manager, a janitor, a hotel clerk, superintendent of an apartment house owned by wealthy, impulsive Cortlandt Field Bishop, in whose favor he quickly rose. Realty-man Bishop was also an art collector. In 1923 he bought the American Art Association for $500,000, later got its chief Manhattan (and U. S.) rival, the Anderson Galleries, for another $500,000. In October 1929 he merged them...