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...debtors, even to the point of paying their back taxes. In the House 30 Representatives put themselves behind a bill by Mississippi's Busby to issue $3,000,000,000 in new bonds and inflate the currency by that amount in the desperate hope of upping commodity prices. Louder & louder grew the cry to remonetize silver. All that held the inflationists back was a lack of unanimity as to which plan to follow...
...stage the drums beat louder. Strings and woodwinds whispered spookily. Jones, tired by running, sank to the ground. His feet hurt him. He pulled off his boots and fanned his toes. His stomach was empty. He hunted vainly for food which he had hidden under a white stone against just such a time? Dwarfish forms like tree-stumps started moving towards him, ha'nts which frightened him so that he drew his pearl-handled revolver, fired at them...
This drew cheers and a burst of hand-claps-ordinarily banned in the Assembly. Even louder applause rang out when Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, said. "Is the League aware that this is a great test case which will establish precedents for future disputes? . . . Any policy of compromise as regards principles will lead to failure and ultimate death for the League...
Talk of a big new opera company buzzed louder and clearer in Manhattan last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes...
...neither impede nor facilitate the business of the Press." he said, this time a little louder...