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...days later a million people were said to have assembled in the streets of London to await the outcome of the elections. Elaborate preparations were made to give the results, which were expected at 9:45 p. m. Exactly at 9:30 a thick blanket of London fog settled down and obscured everything.; Theatres, cinemas and "loud speakers". (English for amplifiers) gave out the final results...
...unusual prosperity of the last decade has made the citizenry foolishly tolerant of municipal and state extravagence; and perhaps only a period of depression will force voters to scrutinize the conduct of local officials. Yet in this age of insistent press preaching it should hardly be necessary to await such a period. However, it is becoming increasingly clearer that as long as citizens are so indifferent to the character of local and state governments that they refuse to cast ballots the "machine" will continue to run secretly and smoothly; and the average college man will never seriously undertake a public...
...since New York taxis reach their maximum efficiency only when manipulated by New York chauffeurs, one must expect a proportional exportation of these valuable citizens. London laughs, and looks forward with pleasure to faster transportation; but she little knows the thrills, the dangers, and the daily accident lists which await...
...Pike returns with the verdict that Saavedra does suppress the press, that he does incarcerate his political disputants, that, in short, he is a tyrant; but also that none of these things is regarded as indecent in Bolivia, and that most of his victims await, without rancor, their opportunity to return to Bolivia to do unto Senor Saavedra as he did unto them...
...personally acquainted with a man who was working in a war production plan in New England and who, for certain remarks he made, was indicted. He went to his employer, stated that he had better get his time card and await arrest, and he found that his employer refused to relinquish his services until the moment of his arrest...