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Once he makes up his mind Persia's sharp-nosed "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi. is a tiger for action. Last week he sprang on Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., stock control of which is held by the Government of Britain's King George V, no tiger. In Teheran, with Reza Shah Pahlevi presiding, the Persian Cabinet denounced and cancelled Anglo-Persian's concession to exploit 500,000 sq. mi. of Persian oil land which was to have run until...
...past there have been many attempts to reform Tammany Hall; but all save a few have been reform tickets,--appeals to the voter--and they have failed in that they attacked the Tiger in his stronghold. The Scabury investigation, one of the most successful attempts at reform, did not try the voter but worked through the law courts. Reforms must come through the top to be effective, and the surest method is to strike at Tammany's purse. Hence the bankers can at last make the tiger toe the line; and willy nilly he must lick the hand that feeds...
...After Night (Paramount) is the Grand Hotel of the speakeasy industry, a glib, neatly put together formula-picture illustrating the hypothesis that true love chuckles at grilled doors. The proprietor of the speakeasy in this picture is no common Tony; he is Joe Anton (George Raft) and his blind-tiger is as elegant as his double-breasted dinner coat. When Joe Anton observes a fetching gilded youngster propping her face against his champagne glasses, he wonders who she is. He learns that she is a Miss Healy (Constance Cummings) and that the saloon which she patronizes, out of nostalgia...
Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Condé Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle...
...posts inside the Stadium last Saturday after the game, spectators coming out Gate 33, on the Soldiers Field side witnessed another battle just outside the Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed him, and was only dispersed with the coming of dark...