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...Along with many another notable, President Hoover last week sent a congratulatory letter to William C. Creamer, octogenarian silk salesman of Manhattan's Arnold, Constable & Co. Salesman Creamer remembers selling silk by the yard to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Ulysses Simpson Grant, recalls seeing Theodore Roosevelt brought to the store by his mother...
...ballooned in the wind and admitted the downpour. The ceremony was abruptly called off. The President and his bedraggled party trudged across the dunes to motorcars which carried them to the Sequoia, which returned them to Washington. Governor Pollard promised to charge the State of Virginia with a new silk hat for the President...
...spite of an able cast that includes Marguerite Churchill and Sally Eilers, the whole thing is dull, chiefly because of an incoherence brought on by bad dialog and an attempt to cover too much action in program time. Typical shot: Spencer Tracy and his gang starting out in silk hats and morning suits to kidnap a bride...
...Migel, aristocratic, Texas-born, is less famed, except in the silk industry, one of whose few tycoons and Lotos Club members...
...have Joseph Leiter of Chicago ousted as trustee of his father's $30,000,000 estate. Joseph Leiter's sister and nieces claimed that he had spent $7,000.000 too much in developing Wyoming ranch lands, that he was extravagant personally, having once ordered 50 doz. pairs of silk socks. He cried: "I am a hard-headed American businessman. While my sisters were going to Europe, marrying titles, I stayed by our property and managed it!" He proved that he had increased its working capital from $12,920,000 to $17,387,000 in cash...