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...cafe in which she had taken refuge from the photographer, Newt made a hit playing river music on his homemade one-man-band contraption. Pearl, following her husband's second reappearance, was about to clear for Chicago with a crooner, and Ernie was on the brink of a new wedding with a river gal (Katherine DeMille) when Newt nailed Pearl and Ernie in the barge-boat cabin. At last he found reason to strike up St. Louis Blues. Best tunes: With a Banjo On My Knee, There's Something in the Air. Best scene: Miss Stanwyck...
...there was a report that Harry Sinclair had been elected board chairman of a West Texas Company called Rio Grande Oil, which had a branch in California. Rio Grande soon slid to the brink of receivership and Oilman Sinclair denied that he had anything to do with the company. Just ten months later, however, Harry Sinclair's new Consolidated Oil Corp. acquired control of Rio Grande with the help of Elisha Walker's Interstate Equities Corp. in a deal which has since aroused the curiosity of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Thus, at about the time Richfield was succumbing...
...Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when his semaphore brings the news that the French have sunk 63 British merchant ships off the Azores. All of Lloyd's insurance men are on the brink of ruin...
...most variable of elements, and a weathervane for President is the surest guarantee of disaster. It has been said that Roosevelt's policy is laudable. It should be examined. He partially sponsored, and then wrecked, the London Economic Conference. The administration's silver policy brought China to the brink of disatser. "The good neighbor" policy, for which the President holds himself solely responsible, was instituted in Hoover's administration when marines were withdrawn and a general pacific attitude in regard to South and Central America prevailed. And it was not so long ago that he flailed the heads of many...
...friends, the answer to that is the record of what we have done. (Applause.) It was this Administration which saved the system of private profit, the system of free enterprise, after it had been dragged to the brink of ruin by these same leaders who now try to scare you. (Applause...