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...Errett Cord, Caleb Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move away from California's taxes, Reno wired him an invitation, as yet unsuccessful...
...achieve a "Feeling of Security." "Mr. Smith." Obviously this week the Western Pact of Adolf Hitler's dreams and schemes was not yet in the bag, but Ambassador von Ribbentrop received the significant British honor of being invited to a house party at Knowsley Hall by the Earl of Derby, great & good friend of King George V & Queen Mary, not hitherto rated pro-German and in British Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop was a "purely private affair" and that...
...patrols to isolate the country. Dictators Hitler and Mussolini joined in this round robin of Peace and Neutrality. "They now believe," explained the New York Times's Frederick T. Birchall, that Franco "has enough . . . help from outside to enable him to become master of Spain." Said the Earl of Plymouth, patient chairman of the Non-Intervention Committee: "Our work has not been in vain. ... I am able to say it has been successful...
...thesis for Communists throughout the world-the thesis that Communism and Democracy are "on the same side of the street" while Fascism is "on the other side of the street"-was spouted by Sian's Chinese Reds last week in almost the identical words of U. S. Red Earl Browder, who announced not long ago: "The Communist Party declares that the issue is 'Democracy v. Fascism,' not 'Communism v. Fascism.' Communists advocate the widest Democracy...
...became an extra at the old Astoria Studios, where the casting director did not like the name Joachim. Al glanced out a window, saw the Ritz Laundry, called himself that. He became moderately successful, lured his brothers into vaudeville. They launched a collegiate act in 1925, soon landed in Earl Carroll's Vanities. But collegiatism went stale and the trio had three lean years before they developed their present brand of satirical lunacy. It finally got them a job in a night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby...