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...polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
...swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...
When the Post Office Appropriation bill first came up two months ago, Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, seat of a big post office-box factory, got the authority for taking over Reedsville's output knocked out of the bill. When the bill went .to the Senate, that gallant body put the authority back in. Secretary Ickes remarked acidly that evidently Mrs. Roosevelt's "Socialistic project" was to be given a trial...
Public-spirited son of a public-spirited father is Theodore Roosevelt, 46. A gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor...
University--"Hl Neilie" A fast moving picture with capable performances by Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell; plenty of tough amusing dialogue. "Gallant Lady" The suffering of Miss Harding has become almost psychopathic...