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...Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...
...nation's law schools last week wrestled with a tough, ironic case involving themselves. For the first time since the early '20s they had achieved the blissful condition of finding a job for every graduate. At the same time they faced the fact that they might soon have to go out of business. Harder hit by the draft than any other schools, the law schools were down to a corporal's guard of students; some had only a sixth of their pre-war enrollment. It looked as if law schools would be the first U.S. educational casualty...
...Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello's The Dancing Years, recently past the 1,000 mark. Other flourishing musicals: Get a Load of This, featuring Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Vic Oliver; and a revival of Rose-Marie, a Broadway favorite of the '20s. Americans in Britain damn London's musicals as miles below U.S. standards, and former N.Y. Herald Tribune Critic Richard Watts Jr., now with the OWI in Eire, comes down just as hard on the London productions of straight plays he saw on Broadway...
...Federal Reserve. Selling the Government bonds to the banks is of course inflationary because it adds to the amount of credit money in circulation. But selling them to the central bank is the next thing to printing greenbacks. (France followed that road to inflation in the early '20s.) It means one more retreat from what the Treasury itself has said was its wartime objective: to cut down the sale of bonds to the banking system (whether the Federal Reserve or individual banks) and to sell them directly to the public to help cut down personal spending...
Lindsay has been in the theater since he played Polly of the Circus as a youngster. His upsy-downsy youth included being head man in a tent show, acting in Shakespeare and burlesque. In the early '20s he turned director (Dulcy, To the Ladies); in the early '30s he clicked as an author with She Loves Me Not. In between he married petite, blonde Actress Dorothy Stickney (Mother in Life With Father...