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Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic while Elinor has fallen in love with a handsome English remittance man named Blair. Elinor, Lloyd and Blair go West, set up a ménage à trois...
...members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift indicated that it had turned into another course. No shouts of "Greenbacks! Give us Greenbacks!" rose from the Capitol, but 20 Congressmen adopted a resolution, previously framed by 18 Silver Senators, calling for bimetallism-free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold -"at a ratio to be established...
...political spirit. Said he: "The whole country, the whole world is leaning more & more toward Liberalism. It is the popular acclaim. Political parties will yield to it for support. We, who want to continue the form of government that was established here 160 years ago, realize the drift. But we do not want this country swept into outright Socialism. We do not want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks ago in committee. Chairman Doughton had started his Ways & Means to work on a new revenue bill and on legislation to up liquor taxes. Last...
...which prohibits a person interested in dealing in securities from serving as a bank director after Jan. 1. Among retiring directors: Floyd L. Carlisle of Niagara Hudson and Frederic J. Fisher (bodies) from Manhattan's National City. Philip Stockton of Boston's First National reversed the drift by resigning from First of Boston Corp. (securities affiliate...