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...scene the murder has been done, the corpse hidden, all clues covered. Midwinter rightly suspects Peter and Avis but can find no evidence. Instead he sets traps. Burly Peter might have blundered, but Avis reads Midwinter like a hornbook, makes game of all his plotting work. Making no headway, the detective returns to London. Now Avis and Peter are married, they have the farm they want, the baby they also wanted is on the way. But Peter broods, his mind goes slowly maggoty with remorse. When the ghost of his brother returns to the farm he knows his time...
...Stevens seems destined to preside over wild and stormy sessions. For two years the Bonus issue has been vigorously suppressed at the Legion's national conventions. At Boston in 1930 a cash payment resolution was strangled in committee. Later when the Veterans of Foreign Wars began to make spectacular headway with their Bonus drive in Congress, the Legion's na tional executive committee at Indianapolis climbed on the legislative bandwagon, declared for the 50% loan plan. At Detroit in 1931 the Legion was all primed to ap prove full cash payment when President Hoover, on the spur of the moment...
...strike shipped his stuff by rail to unaffected markets elsewhere. Thus, though Sioux City's daily hog receipts fell from 2,000 to 500, the price of hogs for the State did not rise, dropped instead 25?. The Holiday idea trickled across the Missouri into Nebraska, made further headway in the Dakotas. Illinois. Minnesota, where Governor Floyd B. Olsen favored aiding the strikers with martial law. Separate from the Reno movement but parallel with it in purpose was last week's milk strike at Sioux City. Local dairymen were in despair about the $1 per cwt. they were...
...Chicago, Ohio's delegation will cast a courtesy ballot or two for Favorite Son White ' When he fails to make headway, the delegates' obligation to him will have been discharged. Then they will be free to switch to some more likely candidate from Ohio Mr. Cox or Senator Robert Johns Bulkley may be given a short complimentary tryout. Finally, depending on how the convention breaks, the delegation will turn to its real choice for the Presidency, the one man from Ohio who could lay serious claim to the nomination and who once nominated, could give Herbert Hoover a hot race...
Popular support for precisely such investigation has been gathering headway as the result of a series of articles ("T Rescue of Germany," "As Noble Lenders," "Opening the Golden Goose") written by serious little Garet Garrett and published by the Saturday Evening Post. With excellent hindsight and a closely-woven argument Mr. Garrett has depicted U. S. finance recklessly dumping Other People's Money into Europe and then turning frantically to international politics to be rescued. Not satisfied with the Post's huge circulation of the Garrett theme, Francis Patrick Garvin, president of the Chemical Foundation and a good...