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...frenzied demonstration of welcome. As he entered his hotel, the President's eye fell on a small Communist demonstration bearing placards ("Hoover blesses scabs"). "That, night the President addressed the American Bankers Association meeting in the Cleveland public auditorium (see p. 14) while 2,000 Reds made a great racket, fought the police outside the hall. His speech over, President Hoover started immediately back to Washington...
...which so much cyclonic satire is hung concerns a smalltime vaudeville team of which the smartest member is Jean Dixon (the acidic wife in June Moon). The least gifted member is Hugh O'Connell, a ludicrous gentleman who had the part of a half-drunk reporter in The Racket, a completely drunk reporter in Gentlemen of the Press. The first indication of Mr. O'Connell's competence appears when Miss Dixon asks him what he is reading. "Variety" he replies. "Why don't you read something written in English?" "Oh, it's in English," says...
Central Square: Richard Dix in "Shooting Straight" and Dorothy Mackail in "The Love Racket". Both interesting...
Chicago Tribune v. Baptist Racket...
...convention doings at 30? a copy. After attending quite a number of church conventions where every co-operation is given to the press, I decided that the colored brethren were not anxious for publicity and that I did not want to foster what seemed to be a petty publicity racket...