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...through the land making speeches as did his predecessor (only eight formal speeches in 16 months). But had he spoken last week in Houston or Minneapolis, Atlanta or Detroit, Denver, Seattle or San Francisco, he would have had thoroughly attentive audiences. The place where he did speak was in rock-ribbed Hartford, Conn., rich and conservative insurance and banking city. The gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce who sat before him in the auditorium of the Hartford Club represented a body of investors upon whose good opinion the welfare of New York stockbrokers depends heavily...
...Otis Elevator 1,171 2,022 Peoples Gas Light & Coke 1,159 1,356 Sangamo Electric 335 286 Scott Paper 235 251 Seagrave Corp 1d 45d Union Oilf 3,200 8,000 United Biscuit 481 555 United Fruit 264 1,364 Western Union 1,276 1,950 White Rock 295 325 Zonite...
Some years ago a man from Harvard went abroad. His spirit rebelled unceasingly against the confusion of the world and the chaos of the age. He lived with restlessness and moved from town to town until he came upon a citadel that was built upon a rock. There at last he found tranquility, and there he wrote St. Michael and Chartres...
Considerable restraint has been exercised in the handling of this theme, one which offered unlimited opportunities for mis-treatment, for hysterical sentimentalizing over a rugged memory. One imagines that if the virile shade of "Rock" could sit in the darkened theatre and watch J. Farrell MacDonald put some of his former tutees through their paces he would not return displeased to wherever football coaches finally retire...
...little too frankly, and Garth goes down into the woods and kills himself. His death is a shock to Matthias, to his friend Timberlake, to Natalie; Garth's memory haunts them. Moved by a common impulse, Natalie and Timberlake meet at the place where Garth died - a great rock that looks like an Egyptian tomb, with a hole in it that looks like a door. They confess they love each other, and Matthias sees them. When Matthias accuses her, Natalie is honest with him, tells him she has always loved Timberlake. They try to patch things up; Timberlake goes...