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...Even alone, each of you, through your dominating characteristics, was foreordained to succeed, but together you formed a combination, the like of which the world has seldom, if ever, seen...
...transition of U. S. railroaders from private business men, not seldom of piratical bent, into public servants, was begun in 1887 with the founding of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroaders had collected the money, begged or bought the land, built and consolidated the lines. The Commission was established to prevent the railroaders: 1) from charging the public exorbitant rates, to the detriment of the public pocket; 2) from cutting each others' business throats, to the detriment of commerce; 3) from mishandling their finances, to the detriment of public transportation and of general business security...
...Fortune Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
Last week Secretary Andrew William Mellon furnished Funnyman Harry Lauder with an anecdote than which Sir Harry and some 240,000 others had seldom heard a better. The anecdote: It seems that the U. S. Treasury Department and U. S. taxpayers had, between them, made many a mistake in the amounts of taxes payable for fiscal years from 1927 back to 1925 and beyond. These mistakes netted the U. S. a total overpayment of $103,858,687.78. Last week Secretary Mellon sent Congress the names-numbering some 240,000 and taking up 12,133 typed pages- of the taxpayers...
...Loveman is Associate Editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, widely considered the foremost of its kind in the U. S. More than 20,000 constant readers depend on it to guide their tastes in books. Miss Loveman makes no speeches, marches in no parades, is seldom mentioned on the radio. She gets out The Saturday Review. Accurate, tireless, tactful, intelligent she is a serene, important, almost indispensable character in the book of literary life. In honor of good deeds done quietly she was given the first copy of Claire Ambler. Her book was autographed by F. N. Doubleday, George...