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...America. He was awarded the first biennial medal of the Music Division of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs as "the person who has done most to advance the cause of music in the City of New York." With a company of 70, his "Gang," he prepared to set forth on a two-month tour...
...embarrass the Democratic ticket, in 1920 the Republican party promised that it would bring to trial all Wartime grafters. No sooner had the Ohio Gang settled in Washington than its leader, Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, began handing out indictments right & left. One of his victims was Benedict Crowell, potent Cleveland contractor and mining engineer, onetime (1917-20) Assistant Secretary of War, Wartime director of munitions. In 1922 he was accused of fraud in connection with cantonment construction and military supplies. The court considered his indictment a political move, threw it out. But not until last week was Mr. Crowell...
...Gang Buster (Paramount). Funnyman Jack Oakie, ablest of Paramount's comics, here plays a small-town boy so superstitious that on the thirteenth of every month he wants to stay in bed clutching a rabbit's foot. After long and laughable complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson...
...other companies. Richfield's buying contracts made other companies think twice about buying Richfield when the time came. Mr. McDuffie, president, last week was made receiver. His bond was set at $3,500,000, a Federal record. He is an experienced oilman who began work in a pipe gang in Coalinga field. In 1910 he went with North American Oil Consolidated, in 1915 with Shell Co. of California. Later he was made production manager of the Royal Dutch-Shell group and given a choice of office in either London or Los Angeles. He chose the latter...
...there is nothing cold or vicious about them. The people Colette is interested in are perfectly normal, perfectly "nice." Minne was a most romantic young Parisienne. When her mother thought she was doing her history lesson she was really thrilling over the newspaper account of the latest Apache gang fight. So intensely did Minne dream about becoming Queen of the Underworld that when a handsome young loafer stared at her one day, the rest was inevitable. One night she thought she saw him under her window, ran down to catch him, but he was gone. So she looked...