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Mighty Chicago millionaires have a new breakfast luxury. For $200 a year they may buy the Chicago Daily Tribune on fine, white, imperishable rag paper. Even the most ostentatiously rich, however, are expected to avail themselves sparingly of this luxury. The rag paper edition will go principally to libraries and record rooms where permanent files are a crying need...
...Mexico, the expectation was that Governor Dillon would not avail himself of his partisan opportunity, but would call a special election, that having been the course followed when Senator Albert Bacon Fall was called to be President Harding's Secretary of the Interior...
...details of these transactions will be published later, but probably the Bank of Italy need never avail itself of these credits, just as the Bank of England has never touched the credits placed at its disposal in American banks when Britain returned to a gold basis...
...doubtful. He was after all, no more responsible for its enactment than many millions who had voted for it, and much less responsible that those who had led in the agitation; and, in proposing the measure, he was only echoing the sentiments of his constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested the meaning of the poet who mentioned the repose of those who sink to rest by all their country...
...steeped in Kiplingisms, unjustifiably muttered uncomplimentary things and turned up its collective nose at what Dr. Bridges did give it. The matter became serious; the murmuring grew to open and vociferous criticism. The public grievance was even aired in Parliament. But all this fuss and pother was to no avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled down to like Dr. Bridges, just as it had settled down to like Queen Victoria after decades...