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When Montana first sent Burton Kendall Wheeler to the U. S. Senate (in 1922), the U. S. was trying hard to forget World War I. Mr. Wheeler's own Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...
...pave the way for invading armies, but ... to create a diversion south of the Rio Grande capable of diverting the attention of the United States . . . from events in Europe." Next day, Hal Burton reported substantially the same facts to the New York Daily News, and the lid...
Saturday's Children (Warner). In the bouncing days of bedroom farce, Maxwell Anderson's comedy, Saturday's Children, pried the lid off social consciousness with an entering wedge of humor. Thirteen years later, having found that social consciousness pays, Hollywood was sure to set Saturday's Children working for its living in the movies...
...designed to soothe and glide and lull you into easy buying. Every size, every shade, every age catered for-but God help you if you should want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still, for those who still care what they look like, it's worth...
...flask, the price of quicksilver was idling between $83 and $91, just below the price most U. S. mines need for profitable production. When war broke out, it shot up to $147, by February had reached $185, has stayed near there since. Warring governments have clamped the lid on news of their needs and reserve supplies. Panicky U. S. consumers, none of whom is known to face an actual shortage, have helped to keep the price up. This price has stimulated old sleeping New Almaden itself...