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...that high official who ordinarily would have been there had been arrested. And many so reported did not come. 'It is like being in the midst of a bubonic plague,' said a foreign woman guest from the Far East, 'watching to see who have been stricken...
...Often Miss Harlow's leading man, Mr. Gable was working with her on Saratoga when she was stricken. One sequence in this racehorse film prophetically required Miss Harlow to be gravely examined by a physician with a stethoscope. Saratoga, announced M-G-M last week, will now be re-written to suit a "new and entirely different persona''ty." According to Louis B. Mayer, she will be a comparatively unknown brunette from Worcester, Mass., named Rita Johnson who won recognition on Broadway this season in George M. Cohan's Fulton of Oak Falls. Miss Johnson thereupon...
...more. Biggest boost was suggested in the tax on resident foreigners, now $1.55 a head, which would be raised to $5 for laborers and $10 for businessmen, produce another $2,160,000. Most of Cuba's foreigners are Haitians and British West Indians, the most poverty-stricken of whom Boss Batista has been trying to repatriate. Since several of these provisions, especially the capital export tax, would conflict with the Cuban-U. S. reciprocity treaty of 1933, the President would reserve the power to grant exemptions...
When his prize Manchester terrier, Mickey, was stricken by the heat and rolled into the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle plunged in fully clothed, dragged...
...breakfast, alone, in a far corner of the dining-room, hidden by the eager, gossipping headlines of my newspaper from the stricken faces of my fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...