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...Houston ruled Tennessee and practically created Texas, but there were plenty of times when Virginia was glad to forget that he had been born at Timber Ridge Church, seven miles from Lexington. He lived as a boy with the Cherokees in Tennessee, got to be Governor at 34, quit late in his term because his aristocratic new wife had left him under tongue-wagging circumstances. Sam Houston went back to the Indians to forget. The Indians admired him, trusted him, gave him a squaw, but changed their name for him from "Col-on-neh" to "Big Drunk...
...daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox, Hollywood speculated on whether this would be the signal for Selznick to step into Twentieth Century's shoes at United Artists. Last week, the speculation ended when David Selznick announced that he was forming his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists...
Huey Long, badly frazzled, was ready to quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
...bottle of beer, displayed a broken right hand, a left hand with a badly swollen knuckle. ''No alibi," said he cheerfully. "Jim fought a good fight and I hope he's more appreciative of the title than I was. ... I really think I ought to quit...
Reassured, the stockmarket regained all lost ground and last week pushed forward to the best levels since September 1931- just before Britain quit the gold standard. More inspiring was a sudden interest in slumbering railroad stocks, particularly those of the transcontinentals. Great Northern blossomed out as the week's second most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange, rising on reports of bumper Northwestern crops to $19.75, up $3.50. Northern Pacific jumped $2.50 to $19.75. Atchison at $47 and Union Pacific at $105.50 were both...