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...corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages were necessary to secure the requisite numbers, would move out from the cities in the Spring, perform the necessary work, proceed...
Representative Burton of Ohio will keynote for the Republicans. He is expected to make a good conservative speech, nothing spectacular. But what of Harrison? Won't he furnish drama! Won't he rake the Republicans over the coals! What will he leave of the Republican platform, that will then be a newborn babe, brought forth into the world only a few days before? Won't the Republican candidates slink away, like Cataline, before the scourging he will give them! Harrison is a man worth listening to. Hear his famous tongue as it has crackled...
...Adopted a resolution calling upon the Treasurers of the Republican and Democratic National Committees to furnish information on the contributions of the "Big Five" meat packers in political campaigns since...
...height of fashion and turns her loose his society friends. Author and director seem to have scamped their theme, which is the familiar one of clothes making the woman, for they give spectators no scenes in which to determine "what's wrong with this picture." They furnish a quite human and interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance to be a melting ingenue and Adolphe Menjou with an opportunity to be a hero for once-while remaining a man-about-town. The Goldfish. Constance Talmadge scampers through the picture...
Catskill Dutch. Revival meetings are being more and more avidly seized upon by playwrights to furnish good stamping grounds for plays. They have so much natural drama in them, with everybody in sight fighting the Devil at the top of his voice, that any act which contains them virtually writes itself...