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...defendants on trial for using the mails to swindle an estimated $1,350,000 from some 70,000 Midwesterners. The fantastic fraud on view was based on the assumption that Sir Francis Drake had left a huge and as yet undivided fortune. Some 27 billion dollars would be split as soon as costly litigation was concluded. Benefactors were divided into two groups: those who had the name of Drake somewhere in their family tree and those who were merely putting up money to help a "rightful heir," who would divvy up later...
Wilson, who was gifted with all the stumpster's arts which Mr. Hadley lacked, inserted himself in City Hall as controller. This summer both of these old friends reached simultaneously for the Republican nomination for mayor. Davis Wilson beat Hadley in the primaries, but split the local G. 0. P. so badly that Democrats from Postmaster General Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only...
...Italy, visiting the tomb of his parents at Florence. However, as soon as George II felt himself to be really King and had $200,000 in his pocket, he emphatically challenged General Kondylis' plans, proposed instead that he sail around Italy, land at the Yugoslav port of Split and visit, en route to Athens, his cousin, the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul. Nervously the British Foreign Office hinted to George II that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis...
...York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed concerns the efforts of Groucho and associates to get Ricardo a job in the opera company and further his amour with Rosa. To U. S. audiences which once split their sides at the Marxes, but now find them dullish, it will be good news that the brothers have some new routines. 1) Shipboard routine: Hysteria is built up by putting four people and a trunk in a cabin intended for one person .and suitcase, then bringing in stewards, manicurists, telephone repairmen...
Last week the latest effort to do something for artists who have won critical acclaim but sold few pictures caused one of the wildest nights that the Negro waiters in Manhattan's Coffee House Club could remember, and split the American Society of Painters, Sculptors & Gravers...