Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her husky drawling voice does not depend on words and is the same in any language. The story is an aimless, overkeyed triangle. Best shot: a simple-minded jazzbo having a fit when checked in his efforts to get near the South Sea Rose...
...played by Arthur Curtiss James of the Western Pacific. Bearded, eye-glassed, urbane, he is known for different things to different people. To Manhattan socialites he is the host of a huge granite mansion on Park Avenue at 69th Street. To yachtsmen, he is the able and enthusiastic skipper of the famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep...
...road's monthly house organ Along the Line that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet...
...seven months President Hoover had sought an able U. S. District Attorney for Southern Florida. In that State are two Republican factions: one, now dominant, led by National Committeeman Glenn B. Skipper; the other, by George Bean. One after another six candidates recommended by the Skipper group were offered the President for this appointment, only to be weighed by the Department of Justice and found wanting...
Finally impatient, the President picked his own man, Wilbur N. Hughes, once identified with the Bean group. Awful to hear were the wails of protest from Committeeman Skipper et al. Last month Dr. Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...