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...spring of 1930 a blond, square-shouldered young man sat in his Model-T Ford and looked at Scranton, Pa. He saw great black pyramids of coal, busy, puffing locomotives, dismal rows of workers' houses. From Scranton he turned south to Bethlehem where there were steel mills and more locomotives...
...Count of Monte Cristo is one of two productions on the current schedule of a two-year-old Hollywood company which plans to make feature pictures retail instead of wholesale. It is a first-rate translation of one of Dumas' most picturesque stories. In it, a handsome, blond British actor named Robert Donat appears as Dantes, the French officer who, unjustly imprisoned in a dungeon, escapes to find buried treasure on a desert island and returns to outsmart his persecutors. Elissa Landi is Mercedes who, although forced into an unwelcome marriage when her lover goes to jail, remains sufficiently...
Died. William Lorimer, 73, onetime "Blond Boss" of Illinois Republican politics whose U. S. Senatorship ended in notorious election scandals; of heart failure; in a Chicago railroad station washroom. After six terms in the U. S. House, in 1909 he was elected Senator by a large combine of Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois Legislature. Year later the Chicago Tribune was furnished with papers purporting to show that he had bought his seat through a $100,000 "jack pot" to which even Illinois River fishermen had been forced to contribute. When the Senate gave him a clean bill, the Tribune...
...Blond, horsy and 42, President Hanes has no illusions that his tobacco board will revolutionize the tobacco industry overnight. It will no more replace the auction than the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges have replaced the South's spot markets. But its quotations will give the farmer a yardstick; its facilities will enable him to sell his crop when he pleases, not simply when the auctions are held. And more important, if the market is active, it will permit growers, dealers, manufacturers, importers, bankers to buy insurance against price changes by hedging...
...through President Birch-Field of the gallery. Most important was the fact that he had never been on the PWA rolls. The initials after his name, he said, meant "Poor White Artist." The only hint of his identity was a report that the artist was comparatively unknown, 35, tall, blond, separated from his wife and disgusted with the New Deal...