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...line politico, the President has a conservative background but of late has grown steadily more radical, playing for the support of Cuba's restive unemployed. Last week he wanted to seize the Cuban Telephone Co., in which U. S. citizens own the greater part of an investment stake of $28,000,000, planted through International Telephone & Tele- graph which owns stock control. Nervous ministers warned President Mendieta that such confiscation would be rash indeed, but he relied on President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy and distaste for public utility companies...
...generally manage to say it well. Author Marshall is best known for his engaging and witty Father Malachy's Miracle, wherein a simple, dumpy little priest, taking literally the pronouncement that faith can move mountains, effects extraordinary miracles to the consternation of Christendom. Author Hampson, emerging from a background of sports and the theatre, is remembered for his lively and dramatic tale about an English pub, Saturday Night at the Greyhound...
...living in a boarding house and [Harold] came along. In a couple of weeks we were engaged and in two months we were married. . . . I'm the only child prodigy Harold ever knew, so, of course, he thinks child prodigies are swell. He has no literary background, but he doesn't mind mine...
...Madge Evans tried a come-back with Richard Barthelmess in Classmates. When it failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult...
...holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...