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Resulted confusion, clamor and a search for Banker Waggoner. There resulted also the taking over of his Telluride bank by the Colorado banking department. Banker Waggoner was traced to Lincoln, Neb. There his trail vanished...
...Smoot Plan. The present duty on world sugar is $2.20 per 100 lb., on Cuban sugar $1.76. Loud have been the protests against this increase, ominous the warnings to consumers. To quiet this clamor, Senator Smoot proposed a scale of sugar duties that would vary inversely to the wholesale New York price of sugar. His purpose was to stabilize that price at $6 per 100 lb. Insistent was he that it would produce sugar rates lower than those in the House bill. The top rate in the Smoot scale would be $3 per 100 lb., the bottom $1. Cuban imports...
When the Portland convention heard this charge there was indignant clamor. Dr. Thomas Clark Chalmers of Manhattan declared: "In this election at Washington, it was I, always known as a wet, who was Dr. Morgan's manager...
...Manhattan is a dance hall called Roseland. Here, in a ballroom, wide and long, two orchestras manufacture music which substitutes speed and clamor for melody and merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
...misfortune to return his love also had the courage to save him from herself. She had failed to disgust him by her appearance at the smoker. This time she went up for a parachute jump, came down dead. At last Bobbie could go away from the clamor of grind-organs and bawling voices...