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What the average citizen did not realize, what precipitated one of the loudest journalistic uproars in New England history, was an underlying chain of circumstances not visible in the simple announcement of the sale but well known to rival journalists, cranks, alarmists and vigilant patriots; a chain of circumstances which non-New Englanders viewed variously as a bit of shrewd industrial mechanism or as a sinister instrument to shackle Public Opinion, to strangle the Freedom of the Press...
Then Bob brightened visibly, looked up and said. 'Do you know what Perley Breed said to me once? He was leading his orchestra at that dance. After I finished playing he said to me. 'Bob,' he said, 'You're the loudest piccolo player I ever heard...
...Loudest of the gadflies is Blanton of Texas. His dearest concern is the government of the District of Columbia to which the House turns its attention on alternate Mondays. Mr. Blanton demands roll and quorum calls, makes booming points of order, inveighs lengthily on small grievances. He serves the purpose of keeping something from being "put over" (his pet phrase) on the House. He is now a lame gadfly, however, having run third to Mayfield and Connolly for the Senate. His departure after March will not be regretted by the general membership...
Fannie Anitua, portly Mexican contralto, sang sonorously but not too smoothly at her first Manhattan concert last week. Mexican colors draped a box. Mexican officials attended, especially urged by President Plutarco Elias Calles. Mexican songs won loudest approval...
Manhattan banks raised interest rates on 90-day loans to 7%, threatened even higher rates if the demand were heavy. In only three of the last thirty years, and not since the deflation days of 1921, had time money been so high. Many were the grumblers. Among the loudest, most bitter, was Columnist Arthur Brisbane, who is first a businessman, then a reporter...