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Ideally suited to this formidably imaginative photography was the theme of America's conquest of the West. This was a salable idea long before The Covered Wagon and will still be salable long after The Big Trail. Director Raoul Walsh (The Cockeyed World) flaunted its hardships violently and often unforgettably. His emigrants fought the earth, the elements and the Indians vividly for twelve reels. At one point they even lowered their wagon train over a grim precipice on home made tackle...
...their campaigning from church pulpits, led prayer meetings, spoke on "Christian Statesmanship." Mayor Rolph, a West-Coast counterpart of Manhattan's Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, would not declare himself beyond the joshing statement: "Why, I'm not a Wet. I've been on the water wagon for two years...
Chief Engineer of Boulder Dam is Raymond F. Walter of the Reclamation Service. Born in Chicago 57 years ago, he was named Arthur Raymond Walter. Aged 5, he migrated with his father, a printer, in a covered wagon to the Leadville, Col., gold rush, drifted from one boom town to the next. As a boy he dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose...
...fact. Sluggers were imported and organized violence indulged in by warring Chicago building trades unions a quarter-century ago. But it is a fact that the newspapers, in their great pre-War circulation battles, notably between the Chicago Tribune and Hearst, circulation managers hired hard-boiled "wagon bosses," armed them and sent them forth to battle on the streets. The police were given to understand that these fights were private, above the law, even if men were killed (and some were killed). Greatest general of those circulation wars was Max Annenberg, first for Hearst, then for the Tribune...
...Wagon Mound, N. M., it was Friday evening, Sabbath eve for Charles Geist, tailor, and Joe Lowenthal, haberdasher, Orthodox Jews of Paterson, N. J. They were motoring to Los Angeles where they hoped to start in business. Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...