Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article on "President Hoover and Prohibition" was written for the Harvard Crimson by Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of political economy...
Keith-Albee--"Young Nowheres", with Richard Barthlemess and Marion Nixon...
Keith-Albee--"Young Nowheres", with Richard Barthlemess and Marion Nixon...
Compared with some of his other shows, this is not their equal. The plot by no means holds up its end of the entertainment, and the individual characters, Jolson, and Marion Nixon, the pretty and sometimes rather appealing young wife, are forced to do more than their share. Davey Lee, as "Little Pal," is a deciding factor in the story, and gives a creditable performance while being so. It is the inspiration which results in the feature song of the program, also called "Little Pal." These words of emotional father love are well sung by Jolson, and are the best...
...reason why the advocates of the repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces...