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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's stage stuff in so far as the union officials are concerned. . . . These folks you saw were dubs. ... I mean by that that they enjoy misery?or what would be misery to you or me, but to them is just normal existence. Why, some of them have been living like that around here for three years, and they'll continue to do it as long as the public helps them and the union exploits them...
Auditors took this to mean that General Groener will continue the settled Reichswehr policy of developing new and super swift offense units to compensate in part for the puny strength...
Third, for the Australian Government: Australia has the advantage of competition for her issues between the two great money markets of the world, which mean better terms of loan and the goodwill of two great nations of investors...
...nefarious plans. Being something of a ventriloquist and wearing spooky robes, John Maple makes Rackham seem haunted. Gouty Lord Beaurivage is carried out in a fit of fright. Hilda agrees to sell Rackham to John Maple at his price, falls into the arms of Lord Hellup crying: "Hannibal! ... I mean, Hamilcar!" O happy ending! O lack of murder...
...subtler feints of a canny rival editor, a burly bartender, a cautious banker. His children, with the exception of the faithful Ruth, leave him stranded on his editorial high ground. The relentless climax of Marvin's failure gives dignity to a rather repetitious tale of puny struggles and mean treacheries...