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Made restless by his girl friend, the Perfect Specimen decides to run away from his wealthy grandmother, May Robson. Miss Robson, fearing for her darling, calls out the G-Men, and thereby Mr. Flynn is given an opportunity to thwart the searching fingers of the law. After various peregrinations he returns to peace and Miss Blondell...
...February 1936 the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the death sentence conviction of a smalltime crook named Gooch for the abduction of two sheriffs from Paris, Tex. to Pushmataha County, Ark. Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...
...dreaded provisions. Not slow to underscore this ruling was SEC's Chairman James McCauley Landis. In a long press conference he again called on the holding companies to set foot in the paths of peace, forsake the "Liberty League lawyers." including John W. Davis, "who believe they can thwart national political thought by obtuse legal advice." Last week not one but two of the biggest utility holding companies in the U. S.- North American Co. with assets of $891,000,000, American Water Works & Electric Co. with $434,000,000-notified their stockholders that it would be in their...
...bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk of the American Section of the Universal Christian Council went to Moscow and discovered to what lengths Soviet bureaucracy was prepared to go to thwart him. It was estimated unofficially that $100,000 would have to be paid in taxes on the structure and equipment of a church costing...
Dear to the heart of Publisher William Randolph Hearst is the notion that he can thwart and confound his enemies by the simple process of keeping their names out of his 33 newspapers. Two months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however...