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...reported as "favorable"' while only 91 were definitely ''opposed." Somewhere in the House background was said to be a colossal petition signed by two million veterans calling for Bonus cash. Though the American Legion was nationally committed against further payments, individual posts throughout the land clamored louder & louder for them. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, frank lobbyists, wangled energetically. The Ways & Means Committee set next week to begin hearings on Bonus legislation. House leaders warned that further cash payments would hopelessly unbalance the Budget but declared themselves impotent to check a House once stampeded by the "soldier...
...breakfast bacon seemed to lie quiet in its own grease. As the day wore on a strange murmur like far off breakers on a distant beach began in the St. Antoine to break the sullen quietude. Travelling slowly along the crooked streets it gathered volume always nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double draw bridge...
...taxes. It was quite evident that, with the County in technical default for $1,868,400 due last June, investors would be slow indeed to buy any more of Mayor Cermak's tax anticipation warrants. Last week speculation as to a possible receivership for Chicago grew louder & louder...
...Louder than any tenor in Rigoletto, Per fumer François Coty complained last week of the fickleness of women. Women had smiled upon his perfume business, built up his fortune until it reached nearly $35,000,000 in the lush days of 1929, allowed him to buy newspapers, attempt to become Senator from Corsica...
...Louder comes the music. A regiment with great bearskin hats, long coats, and polished boots swings in to view. They are followed by six matched horses hitched with gorgeous gilt trappings. On the blinkers are the tiny, polished letters "G. R." Behind the horses is a great gilt coach within which sits His Majesty the King. He is, as every one knows, on his way to open Parliament...