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...Chamberlain clique, seeing him merely as an uncut, minor edition of Father Churchill, firmly snuffed each attempt. With the "official Conservatives" and competition both out, and his father in at No. 10 Downing Street, it was easy. Adrian Charles Moreing, M. P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, died and Randolph popped up as unopposed candidate in the by-election, was duly elected...
...could imagine no more attractive a future for a young Briton than to serve the good people of Preston, gushed Son Churchill...
Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff deserve honorary memberships in Tammany Hall for their superb performances. Preston Sturgis, author and director, ranks with Judge Seabury as a tiger-killer. But perhaps it would be better to say that while the good judge did the actual killing, Mr. Sturgis has written a magnificent epitaph...
...boss's explanation was confirmed by Georgia Power Co.'s President Preston S. Arkwright, who said that though the operators were supplied by "the Pinkerton agency," this had "nothing to do with labor or labor unions." President Ross C. Wallace of Central Illinois Light Co. spoke up about the tear gas and shells: $500 worth were bought for burglary protection and to patrol the company's lines when a neighboring company was on strike. In Springfield, ILL., Eugene Scott, business manager of Local 702 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.), gave Central...
Written and directed by Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable), The Great McGinty is shrewd, salty, adroit. It is also an actor's dream. Brian Donlevy makes the dream come true. Son of an Irish whiskey distiller who moved to the U. S. before the war, Brian Donlevy was bred to arms at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis. He carried on as a bugler with General Pershing's 1916 expedition to Mexico (where he says he developed his barrel chest), flew with the Lafayette Escadrille in France. After that he modeled for Arrow Collars, worked...