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...Plan. "The railways as a whole are in serious difficulty," declared Governor Roosevelt in his bland, cultured voice. "Our job is neither to howl about a calamity nor to gloss over the trouble. There is no danger of the railroads going out of business. Why, then, the difficulty...
...suggests a coronet on the city's brow. In it are twelve kinds of marble and $5,000,000 of taxpayers' money, a far advance beyond Denver's first City Hall, a floorless log cabin on the treeless plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands a clocktower capable of rendering the four-note Cambridge quarters. The clock, crowning jewel of the coronet, is the gift of the relict of Denver's long-time (1904-12, 1916-18) Mayor Robert W. Speer who conceived and planned the Civic Centre on the sand hill...
...Senator Reed voted aggressively for each & every "nuisance" tax item that appeared. In addition, he got back of the second-class postal rate increases. What he expected soon happened. The potent motor, radio, cosmetics, and candy lobbies whose products had been singled out for taxation sent up a wounded howl. The proposed tax on bank checks trod on the toes of the American Bankers Association. Publishers, many of them on failure's brink, protested the postal rates...
...European city's sleepless roar that throbs across the city's zoo, rises every night a roar of animal voices, voices from Africa and Asia, from the polar ice, the plains of Tanganyika, the primeval forests of Borneo. Lions groan and tigers moan. Elephants trumpet like thunder. Wolves howl, hyenas laugh, monkeys screech. But all cry the same thing: "How long must we remain captive? What have we done that we should suffer so horribly? Why are we here? Why?" Sleepy humans do not answer, do not even hear...
...still like to see prison-gates clang and hear prison-horns howl in the night, the film will probably entertain...