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...week elected a new president, Charles M. Kittle, to succeed Julius Rosenwald. Because of the large trading in Sears, Roebuck shares on the New York Stock Exchange, brokerage houses, financial bigwigs evinced interest. Mr. Kittle, now 44, began his rise to fortune as a waterboy to a railroad section-gang when he was 14. At 17, he was a telegraph operator, then cashier, chief clerk, superintendent. He was general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad. During the War. he managed the Illinois Central and three additional railroads...
...used to devise and launch the homeric spectacles at the Hippodrome, has directed his first picture. The expansiveness of the movies seems to agree with him. In the generally entertaining document he starts with the purchase of Manhattan Island for $24. Later events develop into a fairly normal gang picture with Spike reforming and marrying the little angel of the slums...
...were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here. And Captain Herbert Hartley, master of the Leviathan, ordered three long blasts on the potent steam whistle as the yacht started up the harbor...
Besides several thousand undergraduates who will see the game on these season passes, 2500 pasteboards have been given to the now famous "Knot Role Gang", which has not been able to get a peek at Harvard football since the Middlebury game three weeks ago. Tickets and admissions are also on sale at Cambridge and Boston agencies, and will be sold at the gates of Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoon as well. Mr. C. F. Getchell of the H. A. A. was unable to predict the exact number of these last minute sales, but believes that they will bring the total...
...exclusive school for young ladies"-one of those magnificent cinema schools where the girls wear curls down their backs and continually wander about bearing tennis rackets. From there, she shifts to Italy and is learning to drink just as her Irish sweetheart, who has left his construction gang to save her, arrives and orders beer...