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...railroad section gang. Later he worked for the Wright Brothers who were experimenting with flying machines, finally went to New Mexico and turned his talents to politics. Last May Albuquerque voted on recalling him as Mayor, decided against it, 6 to 1. His winning campaign slogan: "I ain't going to quit saying ain't when I'm elected Governor...
...Orleans Senator Long joyfully cried: "The only way for us to get out of this Depression is to secede from the United States. . . . We ain't going to get any place until we get rid of all those damn bureaucrats, hobocrats, autocrats and all those other crats up there in Washington. . . . Oh, it'll take us five or six years, I reckon, but we'll set up a real Utopia in this State. We've got to run our own business and not have any of those dam fol-de-rols that's going...
...breakfast. The pressagents took her to a Fifth Avenue smartshop. Shrewdly she chose two black gowns, both very simple, very tasteful, very expensive. After lunch, to her great delight, a police escort cleared the way to City Hall. Bumbling Mayor O'Brien was out. Said Annie: 'I ain't going to wait. I'm just as Irish as he is." She had tea with caviar in a swank restaurant, dined with Showman Samuel L. ("Roxy'') Rothafel, saw a preview of Lady For A Day. Taken to a farewell supper, she waltzed, drank, acted...
...Louisiana had beaten Vanderbilt for the first time in its history by the convincing score of 29-to-0, Huey Long had expended so much energy that he was, for once, almost speechless. He puffed & panted: "We're-the greatest-team in the world. Anyone who-thinks we ain't-we plan-to meet...
...doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of Producer William Le Baron. The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title, It Ain't No Sin, "dangerous." The New York State Censors refused to give the picture a license. Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title and other changes. When Belle of-New Orleans was proposed New Orleans civic organizations spluttered vehement objection...