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Calvin Coolidge died. John Patrick O'Brien became Mayor of New York City. The Japanese quit the League of Nations over Manchuria. Germany fell under Adolf Hitler's sway. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the U. S. The U. S. went off the gold standard. Beer came back. And still the National Diversified Corp. fraud trial ran on & on in Manhattan Federal Court...
...chose to enter Williams College. There he chose Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, distinguished himself as a varsity first baseman, was tapped for Gargoyle, the honor society whose roster includes New York's Governor Lehman, Massachusetts' Governor Ely. When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained a senior lieutenancy...
...evidence brought out at the trial dropped him to obscurity; resulted in the appointment of President Harding's Postmaster General Will H. Hays as public apologist for Hollywood. Died, Albert Russel Erskine, 62, president of Studebaker Corp.; by his own hand (pistol); in South Bend. Alabama-born, he quit school at 16, turned bookkeeper, climbed to fame up the long ladder of accountancy. As head auditor of American Cotton Co., he got his big chance when Yale & Towne (locks) asked him to peruse their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same capacity...
...Germany last week Socialist deputies were ousted from State diets. Finally membership in the Socialist Party was decreed by Dr. Frick to be "naturally incompatible with State employees' receiving salaries, wages or pensions from the public funds." Thus Socialists hereafter must either serve the State without pay or quit their jobs...
Baby Face (Warner) is notable mainly because, when the Hays organization ordered portions of it changed, it caused one of the studio rows between Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner as a result of which Zanuck quit Warners, formed a new company called Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. to release films through United Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having...