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...errors: The cut used was not of Ferdinand W. Roebling, present head of the concern, but his brother Karl G. Roebling, who, as your piece says, died as a result of the enormous tasks he undertook, both for the Government and his company during the World War period. Col. Washington A. Roebling never was "blind in one eye," nor was he ever regarded either at the mill or among his friends as "a bitter, hard man." Like all Roeblings, he was exceedingly reticent. But he had a fine sense of humor and was the most amazingly patient and uncomplaining...
...left Delegate Davis as the lone survivor to carry on the U. S. job of trying to get Europe to disarm. In the months following the general conference's adjournment in July he became a sort of roving ambassador, dipping into many a diplomatic problem of primarily foreign concern...
...bedazzled Marine (Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress (Alison Skipworth) and her husband (W. C. Fields), a condemned murderer (Gene Raymond) are also among Mr. Glidden's beneficiaries, as is a miserable fat clerk (Charles Laughton). This clerk waddles to the office of the president of his concern, pauses to straighten his necktie, then opens the door. What he does next is impossible properly to describe. The last recipient of Mr. Glidden's largesse is Mrs. Walker, the most energetic inmate of an old lady's home. She uses her money to turn the home into...
...recent rôle of sued but as suer Mr. Fox made news last week when the first of his major suits against the makers and users of sound film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from a German concern in 1928) was brought to trial in Brooklyn. Under the name American Tri-Ergon Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures...
Reform movements and reformers have fallen into ill repute because they are usually ineffective, and, if successful, temporary in their results. The reason for this, in most instances, is the lack of adequate and permanent organization. Political reformers are generally men whose chief concern is not politics, and who abandon the cause when they have attained their immediate object. If the present "younger generation" is going into politics "fifty thousand strong," as one of its members has claimed, there is in New York City today the opportunity for it to translate its academic enthusiasm into political reality. If, not fifty...