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...mother and father. . . . Hugh White has spent his whole life in the pursuit of wealth. He says a man should not be elected to office unless he can pay his own campaign expenses. We have 13 millionaires in Mississippi. I don't see why the people must select their officials from that little group. ... I hope the good God above will deliver me from ever running again in a campaign with a 'big business...
...plane's wing (see upper cut). But the open, straining mouth did not express terror or anguish; Corporal Cain was merely gasping in one last deep breath of rushing air before his plunge. Another view (see lower cut) showed what the parachutist sees as he looks down to select a landing spot...
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison having abandoned his annual intelligence tests for high school graduates,* the Central Press Association-aided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Education-undertook last month to select the nation's six brightest boys. Before being sent on a trip to Italy last week, the boys were received at a Manhattan banquet by Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. To see how smart they were, Senator Copeland began popping questions. "Who is Adolf Hitler?" the Senator asked Prizewinner David Englander of Brooklyn...
...POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent a friend, who was said to have been paid $50,000, from Chicago to see Selznick. Selznick and Zukor, two of the biggest producers in the industry, started Select Pictures Corp. together...
Selznick put the first electric sign on a Broadway cinema theatre. Zukor took Selznick's name out of Select cinemas, but Selznick had his son Myron, 17, sign up Olive Thomas. She starred in Selznick Pictures devised by him and executed by his son. Zukor and Selznick broke up their partnership over that. Selznick started a new company of his own, got a slogan ("Selznick pictures make happy hours") whose author he reimbursed with a gold watch. Overexpansion ruined the new company. In 1924, Selznick was dabbling in radios. A year later, he was dabbling in Florida real estate...