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...other country could such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Tully hope for a hearing, let alone a respectful, respectable audience. In spite of their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate. Jim Tully's persistent clamor in the lobby has not yet gained him admission. Crudely violent writer of crudely violent melodramatics. Author Tully has done better books than Laughter in Hell, but none more typical...
Other Insull developments last week included receivership of Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee, model Insull-controlled interurban electric line. The road was unable to pay interest and taxes. Meanwhile, as State and Federal inquiries continued, louder & louder grew the clamor for the return of Samuel Insull and his son from Paris, of Martin John Insull from Canada. Each of them last week received a communication from State's Attorney John A. Swanson: "Revelations . . . disclosed by my investigation make it imperative that you return . . . for questioning. Advise by cable if you will return voluntarily...
...same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate Repeal. Beneath surface politics, however, was the solid fact that no serious move to effect a Change would or could be undertaken until after the People speak...
...more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented acres. On international exchange the Mexican peso promptly slumped to 3.75 to the dollar, lowest this year...
...lower range of food prices for House diners, will be welcome indeed to men who have been compelled for over a year to pay prices which averaged roughly a third higher than was warranted by depression costs. In taking this step, University officials are responding to a lengthy, justified clamor for reduction, and the notice will be gratefully received by those it affects...