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...bringing the capacities of production and the requirements of consumption together so that the whole world can enjoy the advantages made available by the machine." That this solution will be realized in a libertarian Utopia is far from Mr. Miller's mind. After 24 years in "a grandstand seat at the most momentous show in history," his tortured conclusion is that "the price the world must pay-and is already paying- for the material advantages of the modern machine is increasingly greater curtailment and restriction of the personal liberty of people. . . . Under authoritarian governments in which one man virtually...
Thirty-one ballots were rejected because of duplication or totally illegible signatures or because the signature could not be found in the Official Register. Notes from Joo Stick, Father Coughlin, Mac West and two complimentary tickets for the grandstand at Rockingham were also received...
...dawdling that the Nominee's car had to pull out of line and run ahead to the point where cheering crowds were waiting. At Detroit also his speaking stand was in centre field from which it took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second or two for applause to come back. Everywhere local politicians were allowed to arrange so many meetings for Alf Landon that he could not possibly attend them all. In Grand Rapids he had to disappoint no less than three such gatherings...
Last week "100%" Nichols made what looked like his last possible grandstand play short of shutting down completely. Down to the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank he marched, drew out some $2,500,000 in cash and Government bonds, leaving only the $639,700 legally required as backing for his $5,806,463 deposits. Then he stuffed the $2,500,000 into safety deposit boxes in two Loop banks. Blustered he: "Now the politician will have to think up a new idea before he can get his hands on this money." Reason Banker Nichols can do anything he likes...
...pays him $35,000 a year and will get some of it back in sales of his brew at the World Series games. Owner Stoneham, who inherited the Giants from his father last January and has followed them on road trips this summer, hurried arrangements for improving his grandstand as a result of the Pennant he had just won in his first season as a big-league owner. Delighted with the prospect of another "subway series," New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. promised to double the length of its trains to take care of the 100,000 extra...