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...charged that Brother William "zealously guarded the name Fox as his own trade mark," willingly paid members of the family to refrain from capitalizing on it because, even when he "was obliged to retire," he expected to re-enter the film business and "continue to enjoy, for his sole benefit, the monopoly and prestige of the Fox family name." She said that when her husband incorporated Aaron Fox Film Corp., he "incurred the severe displeasure and disdain" of Brother William, who, with the connivance of a Manhattan alienist, had Brother Aaron whisked away to a sanatorium, the Hartford (Conn.) Retreat...
Seriously as well as cynically, some Art critics have called plumbing the only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master...
...pigmentation, now was the time for it. Charles Gates Dawes had refused to permit his friends to boom him for the Vice-Presidency. Opposition to the renomination of Charles Curtis was completely demoralized. Chairman Snell had told the "newspaper boys" that in all probability Dr. Joseph Irwin France, sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas Murray Butler and tall, white- maned Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut had promised to pit their minority...
...Such an amendment should be promptly submitted to the States by Congress to be acted upon by State conventions called for that sole purpose . . . and adequately safeguarded so as to be truly representative...
...after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring at the source, when, as a little girl she had watched R. move into an apartment across the hall from her family's flat. R. was so superior to anybody she had ever seen before, the women he brought home with...