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...worked in a Lincoln law office a few years until one day his employer called him in, said: "Roscoe, you know enough law. Go see the county bar examiner. And take along a box of cigars." The examiner opened the box of cigars, noted that they were his favorite brand, reflected: "Well, Roscoe, if your boss has educated you as well in the law as he has in cigars, you are well enough qualified to practice. That...
President Roosevelt last week ordered the only U. S. war boat in the Mediterranean, the brand new destroyer Dale, to up anchor at Leghorn, Italy and steam to Washington in time for the celebration of Navy...
...Church of Rome once was apprehensive of the apparently upstart tendencies of Catholicism in the U. S. However successful the "American brand" of Catholicism was, there remained some nervous concern in 1924 when Patrick Hayes arrived in Rome to receive his red hat. He looked too young to be a Cardinal. And he shocked many a Roman when he preached his first sermon in his titular church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than...
...United Artists has been distributing in the U. S. for the past two years. First foreign partner in a U. S. film company, Mr. Korda planned to continue to produce abroad, said he would leave immediately and start Cyrano de Bergerac with Charles Laughton, Lawrence of Arabia with a brand new star named Walter Hudd, who was advertised as a discovery of George Bernard Shaw...
Last week, setting up a board to administer his brand new Social Security Act, President Roosevelt named John G. Winant chairman for a six-year term. Appointed to a four-year term on the Social Security Board was Second Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Almeyer, 44, studious, Wisconsin-born statistician and social scientist. For a two year term the President picked Vincent Morgan Miles, 48, Fort Smith, Ark. lawyer, onetime member of the Democratic National Committee...