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...apparently I was wrong and, as I have said, I sincerely apologize. Yours truly, Donald Ogden Stewart, Yale...
Unkindest cut of all, it was a Yale man Donald Ogden Stewart of Yale who adapted the original "Brown" to the screen. Written by Radcliffe, revamped by Yale. Any one knowing what a Harvard student thinks of these two contemporary centers of learning will not wonder that the CRIMSON reviewer, while realizing the futility of bombarding the inanimate screen, still holds that the projection of even a strictly fresh egg would help tremendously in relieving the feelings. Chicago Tribune...
...being present. The galleries were packed. Speaker Longworth's wife*nee Roosevelt?was there. The time for voting came. Opponents of impeachment, their battle lost, tried to delay matters. Hot-headed Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi asked for a useless roll-call. Irritated, the usually suave, immaculate Ogden Mills walked across to Mr. Rankin, pointed out that a delay would prevent his delegation (New York) from getting home for Easter. The Mississippian was obdurate, sniffy. Flashed Ogden Mills: "Its a damn mean thing to hold 20 men here!" Back came the retort: "Get over on your own side...
After the session, Ogden Mills haughtily avoided southern Democrats. But Speaker Longworth jokingly remarked: "This man Rankin knew how to get a quorum; starting a fight is the best way to fill the House...
When he could, McCormick bought out Ogden. He wanted, all by himself, to make all the harvesters in the world. When, in 1871, Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern and his factory was a mass of embers, McCormick turned to his beautiful young wife and asked if he should rebuild or retire. Nettie Fowler McCormick replied: "Build again at once. I do not want, our boy to grow up in idleness." He rebuilt, bigger than ever. Their boy was Cyrus Hall Jr., then a lad of 12. The next year he had a brother, Harold...