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...Hollywood's ideas on the point of debutantes. Miss Dee, in the part of the social novitiate contributes comeliness and charm to her role, the saving grace in an otherwise run-of-the-mill movie. And let it not be claimed that the charm of the adorable Frances cannot perform such a miracle. The crowds that wait patiently through the show give ample testimony on this point...
...precedent in-the general's office. ... If nothing happens first next week my father and I will see McCarl again." A letter written after the contract had been approved presented a bill for $15.000 "for the specific services you instructed me on Nov. 13 to perform in Washington." Still another from Mr. Woolley to young Smoot declared that Western Air "regards yourself and your father as one of our major assets...
...Edward J. Doyle, president of Commonwealth Edison Co. Believing that his indictment might "be considered by some Edison Company stockholders as detrimental to their interests," President Doyle last week resigned. The Board accepted his resignation, but voted its confidence in him by putting him back in office. He will perform the duties of president without official title. The position of president will remain vacant...
...defend the adequacy of rule by gentleman's thumb has been during the recent year of recrimination the duty of Richard Whitney, himself unmistakably a gentleman. That duty he prepared to perform in Washington this week for possibly the last time. For the Senate of the United States, snobbish though it is concerning itself, refuses to recognize gentleman-as-such and is about to entertain a bill which would give the Government more actual rule than any previous bill over not only the New York Stock Exchange and the dozens of other exchanges throughout the land but also over...
...Gullahs are negroes, whose forefathers tilled the soil, reaped the harvests, and shined the boots of slave owners long before Emancipation; the present Gullahs perform the same homely functions today, and the Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...