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...When I went into the movies two years ago I never intended to make them my exclusive life work," she continued, when asked why she returned to the stage this winter to appear in "Jezbel," which closed several weeks ago. "My idea of the ideal life is to split my time between the movies and the stage. I prefer New York to California in the winter, because most of my friends are there, and because it is he most wideawake place in the country. But Hollywood has its points, too, specially in the summer. I plan to make three pictures...
Upon Philadelphia's Board of Education last week fell that same stern gaze when Dr. McClenahan, a member since 1931, uprose to announce that the Board was "guilty of sending out illiterate reports of its own proceedings." In its published minutes he had found a split infinitive, a singular noun followed by a plural verb...
During the bull market American Telephone & Telegraph paid no extra dividends, split no stock, put all its extra earnings into surplus. By 1932 that surplus was big enough to have paid each & every stockholder $31. That year, when A. T. & T. and affiliates earned only $5.96, President Walter Gifford took $58,000,000 out of surplus, paid his 700,000 stockholders the customary $9 dividend...
...Empire straddling two Emperors - the true Go Daigo in the Southern Court and Ashikaga's false Kogen in the Northern Court. Like Britain's Wars of the Roses between Yorks & Lancasters for the succession, Japan's War of the Chrysanthemums which lasted 56 years split the Empire. For Shogun Takauji Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair...
...scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet wide open, it seemed almost certain to fall on its first appearance before the Chamber...