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New Deal (Finis)
When Helen Wills Moody published her autobiography (Fifteen-Thirty) last autumn, it was generally agreed that she had written finis to a distinguished tennis career. Seven-time U. S. Singles champion, seven-time All-England Singles champion, four-time French Singles champion, Helen Wills Moody had her share of big...
Tennessee's Finis James Garrett served in the House of Representatives continuously from 1905 to 1929. In 1923. 1925 and 1927 he was nominated for what has often been called the second most important job in the U. S.-the House Speakership. Republican majorities defeated him each time and...
In 1929, Calvin Coolidge made Finis Garrett an associate judge of the U. S. court of customs and patent appeals (salary: $12,500). Three weeks ago, the court's Presiding Judge William J. Graham died. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee was considering the man Franklin Roosevelt had nominated...
High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their...