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...other bit of Bullock history: "In the middle of the summer of 1930, I was talking to former President Coolidge in his little law office in Northampton, Mass. Mr. Coolidge said to me, and I remember his exact words, 'There will be an investigation of investment trusts.' I replied that I would welcome such an investigation...
...traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene where he takes off his shirt, to that where he swims the murky river with a load of lead buried in his back...
Young Lee--A bit of Chinatown in our midst. Good food--American and Chinese. Buy a meal ticket...
That the politics in this bit of Rooseveltian history were not wholly on the Republican side became evident later in the week when none other than Press-agent Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee released extracts from the purported contract to confirm Son Elliott's version of its terms...
...rainy midnight last week the great German dirigible Hindenburg rose from her moorings at Lakehurst, N. J., for her tenth,and final 1936 crossing of the Atlantic eastward. Just before she soared away her massive designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, celebrated a summer of perfect performance with a bit of perfect publicity. On an invitation cruise over six Eastern States he carried 84 potent U. S. industrialists, Government officials and financiers, as a demonstration of lighter-than-air transport to those best able to do something about...