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...finding his wife dead when he returns from the Civil War, goes to San Antonio with his daughter Terrill (Martha Sleeper), and two of their retainers. Masquerading as a boy, Terrill meets a cowboy, Pecos Smith (Richard Dix). Pecos helps the Lambeths settle in their new home. The Comanches whoop upon the hills, the rustlers shake their guns and Colonel Lambeth guzzles his mint-juleps. At the end of the picture, the rustlers and Comanches are all dead. Terrill learns from Pecos that her trousers have not fooled...
Most famed young Democrat in attendance was moose-tall James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. As treasurer, he reported the clubs took in $1,846.78 last year, spent $1,642.35 but still had a deficit of $1,947.53. The convention with a whoop elected him secretary. For president they chose Clifford Woodward of Des Moines...
...workers who go reluctantly for their meals to the Moscow Restaurant Trust the issue was: who has been putting hair into their cabbage soup, leaving bits of metal in their meat balls, giving them sugar with sand in it ? The State said that Oshkin was the man. With a whoop one of Moscow's swiftest propaganda trials was on. It lasted five clays, all devoted to accusation & proof. "The defense," cried the defense attorney, ''is unable to offer any defense!" By the time the State got through Oshkin had put into the sugar not only sand...
...were Chicago's financial woes that Mayor Kelly did not bother to go to Washington to repeat them. Upshot of many a windy speech last week was the drafting by Mayor Walmsley of a tearful resolution of the conference's wants. It was adopted with a hopeful whoop. The mayors wanted: 1) the Government to lend them $1,000,000,000 per year for two years for routine operating expenses; 2) Reconstruction Finance Corp. to buy municipal tax anticipation warrants at 75? on $1 ; or 3) the Comptroller of the Currency to issue new money at par against...
Later in the morning the sole indication of national elation was a demonstration by the students of the University of the Philippines, indulging the Latin scholastic tradition to whoop one way or another at any political occurrence...