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...paid for and written by Henry Latham Doherty, master of Cities Service Corp. Oilman Doherty was loudly crying an old cry of his: the need of Federal control of oil production. Said he: "I have no fight with our Federal officials . . . for I doubt if they would have gotten any place in a fight with a great line of Oil Barons, but the situation has now gotten so bad that many of these Oil Barons are themselves frightened, and, I believe, now is the time to strike." Immediate reason for the Doherty blast was a conference of independent oilmen, called...
...pretentious she has met with a setback, e. g.: The Shadow (1915), Rose Bernd (1922), Romeo & Juliet (1922), The Kingdom of God (1928). Even a Barrymore can fail, critics remembered, when Scarlet Sister Mary opened in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 22. Up to last week the closest she had gotten to Manhattan was Washington...
Said the Rabbi of the Bishop: "He needs no praise, for he is a courageous leader of men. He is alive, vital and dynamic. He has a power that cannot be acquired-that received from his mother. She gave him her love, which cannot be gotten from an institution. Bishop Spencer received in his home the courageous attitude that great men have. "Furthermore, he is not a victim of theological training. His knowledge and philosophy are wide. He is an advocate of truth and the truth he preaches he practices. He has created a spiritual world that time cannot obliterate...
President Hoover went forth early Wednesday morning as usual to play with his Medicine Ball Cabinet on the south lawn of the White House, but he must have felt as though the heavy medicine ball had gotten inside his breast and lodged where his heart ought to be. Just two years after his arrival at the pinnacle of his career, the country had swung widely out from behind him. He had sat up until 11:25 on election night, watching the swing take place as the returns came in. Now, the morning after, the nightmarish news was not only confirmed...
Meantime his dull brother has gotten himself engaged to a very lovely lady (Isabel Jeans), believing her to be wealthy. Likewise, she has consented to marry him on the assumption that he is rich, will be able to pay her debts, which are so pressing that a sheriff's officer is about to be placed in her home to watch her property, pending payment of a bill. The officer appointed is none other than Mr. Banks, who promptly falls in love with Miss Jeans. In making himself generally agreeable around the house he consents to become the footman...