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Apparently it all came as a result of some diligent and somewhat annoyed youths who took it upon themselves to throw waste-basketfulls of water upon rowdy, raucous men in the streets who were disturbing the peace. The fun grew to larger porportions with the pelting of automobiles with larger...
In almost two and a half centuries much has happened to the price of Bank of England stock. Last week, as sprightly Montagu Collet Norman began his 15th term as Governor, it was revealed that the most exciting thing of all happened only last March. At a semi-annual meeting...
(See front cover) Prime and permanent solution for unemployment, in Washington's eyes, is NRA. Principal threat to that solution is that employers will not hire more men at higher wages. Last week General Johnson was busy with industry trying to work that threat out of the recovery picture...
In 1929 Stepin Fetchit was a successful Hollywood comedian (Show Boat, Hearts in Dixie, Fox Follies). He made $1,000 a week, owned four Cadillac cars with a chauffeur for each, spent $75 telephoning his mother to ask whether to buy his sister a $36 dress, urged producers to cast...
Mr. Andrews, a most painstaking and diligent student of American colonial history has here combined a series of lectures given in the Anson G. Phelps Lectureship on Early American History at New York University. In taking this view of the settlements and those who made them, the author defends his...