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...Hearth, were bought by Detroiters at the Detroit Exposition of 1889. After a few years, both ended up in the gentlemen's art gallery of Churchill's Saloon on Woodward Avenue. Changes of Time outlasted Churchill's as a cherished possession of Distiller Marvin Preston. It got its poignancy from the fact that it displayed, in minute detail, almost every form of U. S. currency from 1776 to 1886. Old Mr. Preston would never let it go, even when the late John F. Dodge, one of the original Dodge Brothers, offered...
...When Mr. Preston died in 1924, the painting passed to his nephew Charles, and when Charles died in 1928, to son Marvin III. Recently Marvin III, 26, took it to the Detroit Institute of Arts to arrange for its exhibition. Director Wilhelm Valentiner, dazzled by the reality of Artist Haeberle's currency, particularly a life-size 1886 five-dollar bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make...
...River (Twentieth Century-Fox). Bill Robinson, Preston Foster, Phyllis Brooks and Arthur Treacher in an amusing remake of a 1930 comedy satirizing 1) realistic prison drama, by showing a pen- itentiary which resembles a glorified country club; 2) college sporting drama, by showing the bizarre doings of the Rockwell Prison football team...
What has made the Redskins the adopted alma mater of thousands of Washington residents is a simple formula: spectacular football and smart showmanship concocted in the right proportions by their Big Chief, George Preston Marshall. Big Chief Marshall has always done things with a flourish. When he inherited his father's laundry 20 years ago (at 22), he in vented the slogan "Long Live Linen," splashed it all over Washington, dressed his delivery boys in blue-&-gold livery, soon seemed to have a branch on almost every street corner and was washing the fanciest sheets and dressiest shirts...
Keeping watch on bank accounting is the specific job of the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. Until recently, comptroller was bubbling J. F. T. O'Connor, who resigned to run for Governor of California. Mr. O'Connor's successor is Preston Delano, and banking gossip for several weeks has held that there would soon be a tightening of Federal supervision over Banker Giannini's finances. That A. P. himself smelled a mouse became clear last month when he startled the American Bankers Association convention by announcing that he was "fed up with some...