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...condemning the "political chicanery" of Ohio's relief regime, President Roosevelt was making few enemies among the Buckeye State's regular Democrats. For Martin Davey, who turned his father's experiments in tree surgery into a profitable, high-powered business, got into office by a pair of political accidents. Bitterly opposed by party regulars, he was nominated only because two other candidates split the majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with...
Next day the Catholic priest who officiated, discovering that both bride and groom had been divorced, refused to sign the marriage license. President Arthur and the rest of Washington learned that the happy pair had been secretly married in Missouri some months before. The agents whom Tabor had sent abroad to find Queen Isabella's jewels, it developed, had never left the U. S. And on March 4 Tabor's 30-day term as Senator ended and he returned with "Baby Doe" to Denver...
...find stone staircases leading down to subterranean galleries never before suspected. There were cruciform rooms with floors painted scarlet, amphitheatres containing monoliths and tinted statues with bead collars, canals and sewage systems connecting underground buildings. At the feet of a towering statue of a warrior, Mr. Stromsvik found a pair of exquisitely wrought boots of pure gold, two inches high...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
Under the title "Two Criticisms of President Conant's Report," Mother Advocate presents a pair of literary masterpieces. Smoothly and delightfully written, filled with beautiful analogies and neat, rounded-out sentences, they are in themselves completely convincing arguments. Their points are made. Nothing more can be said. But they are attacking the reflection in their spectacles. The glass is shattered, but the subject itself remains untouched...