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...celluloid range, a homely Nebraska cowboy who thrilled three decades of moviegoers, starting out in 1910 as a $20-a-week stunt man and going on to become one of horse opera's Big Five (the others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Swindler's Sellout. Founded by Swedish Tinkerer Lars Magnus Ericsson 86 years ago, Ericsson Telephone has had a troubled history: Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus...
...classic way to gauge a stock's worth compared to its price is the price-earnings ratio, i.e., its market price in relation to profits per share of the company. In the late 1920s, Al Smith's good friend John J. Raskob, who then functioned simultaneously as an officer of Du Pont and General Motors, shocked the investment world by allowing that under favorable circumstances a stock might be worth as much as 15 times earnings. (Despite this bullish tenet, Raskob, like the President's father, Joseph Kennedy, saw the 1929 crash coming; unlike Kennedy...
...crisp authority he seems lately to have lost in the piling up of documentary detail. But plainly, The Big Laugh is not it. For a mercy, it is shorter. For a pity, it is perhaps O'Hara's worst book. In its account of Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s, trifles are sharply observed, but the whole picture is bleared and unfocused...
Tootle & Twang. The publication in the 1920s of such nonsense "plays" as Lardner's Clemo Uti-"The Water Lilies" and I Gaspiri (The Upholsterers) perhaps marked the literary debut of the New Lunacy. Hailed in some quarters as offshoots of Dada and in others as potshots at it, they helped form the Krazy Katechism of the era. With the mere setting of the scene in Clemo Uti-"the Outskirts of a Parchesi Board"-there sounded a note that would tootle and twang and echo from Perelman to Mad Magazine; it was there, too, in the very first lines...