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...chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary of State. Today Mr. Moley is editor of Today and still a potent factor at the White House. Meanwhile at rustic, somnolent Berea one Moley sister married Superintendent T. R. Barnum of Cleveland Quarries. Sister Nell became a buyer for Cleveland's Halle Bros, department store, continued to live in Berea with Mother Moley. Brother Jim, amiable and easygoing, was proprietor of the Moley Tire Shop in Berea until business grew bad. Then Brother Ray got him a CWA job in Washington. But Brother Jim disliked the bustle of the capital, pined...
...week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers in the trade. In the largest collection of new furniture under one roof in the world they, and some 6,000 other buyers, joked...
...Warner Bros, announced plans for pictures for "family audiences." Paramount's Emanuel Cohen, vice president in charge of production, told company salesmen: "In 30 of the 35 pictures we have released during the last eight months there has not been a single cut made by the censors and only very minor eliminations in the five others." In Cleveland Stadium, 50,000 Catholics took the Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning...
Married. Laura La Plante, cinemactress; and Irving Asher, director of the Warner Bros. London studio; in Paris. A witness: onetime Mayor of New York James John ("Jimmy") Walker...
...land department has control over 2,000,000 unsold acres remaining from the original grant. The company owns oil lands, operates a fleet of 86 ships. In recent years it has gone extensively into business in Newfoundland where it bought Job Bros. & Co., owners of the only sal mon factory ship in the world. From Newfoundland Hudson's Bay Co. ships annually to England some 1,250,000 Ib. of famed "Hubay" salmon, the most popular imported brand in Great Britain...