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Next day began the fight in which Samuel Insull hopes to escape at some point from the legal net which might drag him back to the U. S. to be tried for 'larceny and embezzlement of property of the value of $66,000." The first round of the fight started when Mr. Insull's lawyer, Cristos Ladas, went before the Greek Court of Appeals. He claimed that the extradition treaty was not retroactive, and that Mr. Insull was innocent anyway. In a crowded courtroom he thundered at the five judges. It was all Greek to Samuel Insull...
Noteworthy is the fact that the famed flagwaving manner of beaming, grey-haired, wry-mouthed George Michael Cohan in The Phantom President conveys the real excitement of his own sincere convictions. When he sings, "It's a grand old flag, Don't let it drag," it sounds like a new and tremendous idea of his own. When he prances, he does it like a supersalesman who knows he is good. No actor, he carries off his part ably simply by continually remembering he is George Michael Cohan...
...with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle threw a sand bag at their heads...
...Whenever the lone wolf, the unethical competitor, the reckless promoter, the Ishmael or Insull whose hand is against every man's, declines to join an end recognized as being for the public welfare and threatens to drag the industry back to a stage of anarchy, the government may properly be asked to apply restraint...
...staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise. Of this the principal makes such a scandal that the child goes to kill herself by jumping from the top of the staircase well. The other children drag her back in time. The final scene, in which the overwrought children gather around the young Fraulein, is made the symbol of the harsh old principal's spiritual defeat, the prediction of old Germanv's death...