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...Liberal Leader David Lloyd George refuses to write for Mr. Hearst direct, but writes for United Feature Syndicate which sells his articles to Hearstpapers and others. The Welshman's contract allows him to cancel should he resume office, fore British Cabinet memebers may not write for papers or magazines. When he first left office Mr. Lloyd George could sell a 2,000-word article every fortnight through his U. S. connection for $2.50 per word. Today he has to be content with about $1.25 per word once a month
...brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made him a star. At parties he does imitations of Maurice Chevalier and Al Jolson. He is parsimonious, reads hardly anything, drives a Ford, is afraid of cross-eyed people and hearses. In Hollywood he walks around in corduroy pants, a sweat shirt, house slippers...
...Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty to any legal contract and added: "I did not attempt to define the duties of the Senate or the scope of its powers in passing upon treaties." "I'm Delighted." Though Secretary Stimson made no move to give up the secret papers, Senator Johnson triumphantly exclaimed , "Obviously the learned Secretary of State was unfortunate...
...Supreme Court Justice Richard P. Lydon a temporary injunction to bar Terminal Cab from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that the Yellow contract with the Furness-Bermuda Line had been merely verbal, chose the epithet "cry babies...
...forth Dr. Olaya found time to execute Colombia's business in the U. S. One act: to engage Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, famed Princeton fiscal physician, for a survey of Colombia's governmental finances (TIME, May 13). Professor Kemmerer will go to Colombia in September under a contract guaranteeing him a fee of $100,000 and $20,000 for expenses...