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While he had been a furrier Zukor had known another furrier named Marcus Loew and had invested in Loew's subsequent theatre business. The consolidation of Loew's vaudeville houses, solidifying Zukor's investment, had made his fortune, for the time being, secure. He and Loew found that they had common interests. Neither owned enough houses to keep a "feature" busy the whole year. In the new Loew Co. Loew was president and Zukor nominal treasurer. Into it Zukor threw all his cinema theatres except the three he owned with Brady. Zukor said, "I could have cashed in then...
...entirely in Scott's own handwriting, and is in the uncorrected form. The first edition of "Ivanhoe" in the original boards should also attract bibliophiles. The first edition of "Vanity Fair" with Thackeray's own illustrations rivals the previously mentioned copy in rarity. The copy has the woodcut of Marcus Steyne which was later suppressed. There is, finally, an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Broute's entitled, "Adventures of Captain Hasting," and several signed first editions of "Clarissa," and "Moll Flanders...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, daughter of the late great Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio, was, although not yet a grandmother, much further advanced in the political art than Bryan's and Manhattan's Ruths. She was to be the first woman Congressman-at-large, the nearest thing to being elected Senator, which no woman has ever been. Her statewide string of women's clubs is the largest political machine ever built up by a woman in the U. S. It causes no end of worry to Senator Deneen, whom...
...Marcus Garvey, president-general of the Universal Negro Improvement Association ("back to Africa" movement; alleged membership, 4,000,000), who was deported by the U. S. last year, called from Quebec upon all his U. S. followers to vote for Smith...
...minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will be Ruth Hanna McCormick in faction-ridden Illinois. Lowden was her choice for the Republican nomination. But her father was Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Party regularity is her creed...