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Somewhat of New York's old community spirit was visible in a movement set afoot by Joseph P. Day (realtor) to capture the Democratic National Convention of 1924. In all its history Manhattan has had but one such gathering, and that 50 years...
...Britain, citizen of France, denied that he had given money to Greece. Inquired The Wall Street Journal: New York World cable says you deposited two and a half million dollars to guarantee Italian reparations, but not solely altruistic as with English, French and America capitalists you had big scheme afoot to develop Salonica Ghevgely Railroad, which would supplant Egypt Oriental route by Italy. Give me personal liberty to speak in your defense...
...brought out an issue that is brilliant, fresh, vital, human; unified by a definite ideal of social progress firmly based on a pervasive sense of reality; above all, jubilantly young. At times the Monthly has seemed to stumble in premature senility; in this number it is light afoot, and fine with the virtues and the faults that we all like to claim as belonging essentially to youth...
Athalie hitherto ignorant of what was afoot now learns of her danger, but she has all the bravery of Jesezebel her mother, calling her litter she instantly comes in person to the temple. Appalled by the scene she finds there, she can only rend her garments and cry, "Treason, Treason," but no one will come to her assistance, her officers desert her. The High Priest pronounces her fate. She is led out beyond the sacred precincts and there slain...
...book counter: Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot; Choate's Elements of English Speech; Crawford's American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...