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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring's choosing that vocation [banking] at an early age. His present home is Neodesha. L. E. SMITH...
...Senate last week confirmed (47-to-11; the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, a 1928 North Carolina Hoovercrat, to be a Democratic member of the reorganized Federal Power Commission. Approved at the same time were the four other commissioners: Chairman George Otis Smith, Ralph B. Williamson, Marcel Garsaud, Claude L. Draper. The McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation to the Senate. North Carolina's two Senators and its Senator...
Died. Clarence Kummer, 31, jockey who won many a great horserace on Man O' War, Exterminator, Audacious. Snob II, Ladkin; of pneumonia after weakening his vitality by dieting; in Jamaica, L. I. Disqualified in 1927 for rough riding, he was reinstated, rode his last race...
...Hume of the University, Buz M. Walker of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Nellie Kiern of the Women's College.* New heads appointed were Chancellor Joseph Neely Powers, realtor (dismissed from same office in 1924); Hugh Critz, public relations counsel for Mississippi Power & Light Co.; Robert E. L. Sutherland, one-time president of Hinds Junior College. Lists of new faculties were given to the new presidents. Professors dismissed got no notice, discovered it by reading newspapers. They noted that they were replaced by Bilbomen, that many an extra job had been created; state legislators were listed as proctors...
...Herald-World (circ. 12,000, more than blanketing the 9,500 owners of U. S. pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...