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...gold down into Nevada, went broke with the boom, rustled cattle along the Mexican border. When President Gomez relieved Castro as dictator of Venezuela, Exile Nogales made tracks for home. He soon fell out with Gomez too, harassed his government with interminable border fights. Failure was just threatening to rob him of military adventure when the World War began. He tried to get in it with the Allies, ended up with the Turks. Nogales Bey got plenty of excitement fighting Britishers, Russians, Armenians in the Near East...
...introduce a small child to the idea of an omnipotent Father may easily rob him of his self-dependence. He may form the habit of leaning on some person or power instead of growing up in the belief that he alone must meet and solve his problems as they arise. One might jeopardize the whole future happiness of a child by telling him that he is accountable to God for what he does and not to his own conscience...
...Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay) : ''How can any man know if he is the father?" This is the germ of the scientist's obsession...
...Blair Corp., and his brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook...
...efforts to help the farmer. When fortnight ago Vice President Curtis and Senator Watson begged the Board to hold its 200.000,000 bu. off the market long enough for prices to rise, Board officials obliquely declared that such requests were inspired by avaricious wheat traders plotting to rob the farmer. Few persons appeared to heed these vague accusations. But last week the Farm Board took them to the White House, got President Hoover to broadcast them...