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...skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan, were pleased to sit in at the Cincinnati porch conference in the hope of working out some sort of truce with the bishops...
...Major (Walter Connolly), who has succeeded in arranging a betrothal between his eldest daughter Eileen (Margaret Lindsay) and handsome Larry Blake (Warner Baxter), who has a Rolls Royce and a yacht. When she learns that Eileen loves not Larry Blake, but a poor boy of the village named Jack Breen, Paddy does her loveable best to break the engagement. She snubs Blake, then flirts with him, finally tells him in plain terms why her sister is marrying him. All this has a good effect. After her father has been kicked to death by one of his horses, Eileen marries Jack...
...Provincial Minister of Mines, said that this year's gold mining activities in Ontario alone will split $45,000,000 between wages, supplies, taxes & dividends. Gold shares have soared in Toronto and Montreal. A further whet to speculation was news last week that famed Manhattan Speculator George Forsythe Breen and Sisto & Co. planned to invest $250,000 new capital in Barry-Hollinger Mines, a hitherto only fairly successful company whose shares sold at 3½? last month; 9? last week...
...Operator Breen: Ordinarily...
...Operator Breen: Anything can be done if there is enough money...