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...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
...Greene and Cannon went to Mr. Gerard's Manhattan office-Mr. Cannon wearing a large Republican sunflower in his buttonhole and accompanied by a guard carrying $5,000 in cash-Mr. Bowers was there to receive them with new instructions: Mr. Gerard had called his bets off. Said Partner Bowers: "You know how it is. A man in the heat of enthusiasm will often say something- well-er-ill-advised. Mr. Gerard undoubtedly feels as always about Roosevelt and would have made the bet, but he can't afford to lose his vote. As a lawyer he shouldn...
Chairman Hamilton proceeded to point out that a longtime law partner of his had been a Jew, that long before the current campaign began he had hired a Jew as his secretary. "Governor Landon," cried he, "is just as tolerant as I am. . . . The religious issue has no part in a campaign. It involves the very basic elements of our form of government and jeopardizes the very foundations of the Constitution. But jeopardizing the Constitution is nothing to the New Dealers, who have been jeopardizing it now for nearly four years...
Public Enemy's Wife (Warner) is another salty little treatise on the G-man, whose habits, indoors and out, are of such moment to Warner Brothers. Here the G-man (Pat O'Brien) and his partner (Robert Armstrong) are to be seen engaged in a man hunt for Gangster Gene Maroc (Cesar Romero) whom they expect to find loitering jealously near his ex-wife (Margaret Lindsay). The crisis of the picture arrives during a wedding ceremony which, planned as a trap for Gangster Maroc, fails when Maroc, instead of shooting the bridegroom, merely snickers at him from...
Died. Roscoe Fawcett, 49, Minneapolis sportsman, brother and publishing partner of Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett (Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly, Hooey); in Rochester, Minn...