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...Senator Norris knows there has been no attempt to delay his resolution, but if he thinks he has grown so big he can run the whole United States, he can go to hell...
...Senator Norris did not have to "go to hell" to get action on his resolution. Two days later the Privileges & Elections Committee unanimously reported it out and, a day after, the Senate unanimously adopted it. Vice President Curtis promptly named a special investigating committee of five Senators: California's Johnson, Maryland's Goldsborough, Missouri's Patterson (Republicans), and Washington's Dill, New York's Wagner (Democrats). To finance the inquiry into 35 senatorial campaigns the Senate allowed $100,000. The committee was almost immediately rendered headless by the resignation of Senator Johnson as chairman. His official excuse: "My time...
...Hell Harbor (United Artists). Jean Hersholt, the cinema's foremost exponent of a new, modern kind of villainy, a villainy with depth, individuality and something understandable and human about it, is here a German brigand who makes a good living buying and selling the produce of an obscure island in the Caribbean Sea. Among his current deals is one, negotiated with the lady's father, for possession of Lupe Velez. Like Hersholt, Miss Velez has a specialty in her acting: she is a professional Latin spitfire. Director Henry King, whose specialty is the reproduction of romantic and dangerous...
...translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
...inventor turned and stared at him. 'I'll see you in hell first. ... Do you suppose I enjoyed seeing my life-work made trivial and ridiculous? I was an inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute...