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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 40,000,000 U. S. citizens this week looked forward to exercising their sovereign power over their Government. Rich & poor, black & white, male & female, busy & idle, wise & foolish, they had all been through three years of the hardest times in their country's history. At least ten million willing workers were the Idle Poor. Five thousand banks had gone under. In man's memory wheat prices had never been lower. Taxes were piled on top of the galling burden of private debt. Savings had been swept away by waves of industrial failure...
Socialist Thomas expects 2,000,000 popular votes next week. If he gets them he will double the party record set by Eugene Victor Debs in 1920. The Literary Digest presidential poll indicates that he will receive slightly less than 5% of the 35 to 40 million votes to be cast Nov. 8. Last week he carried straw polls against Hoover, Roosevelt and Foster at Columbia and New York Universities. Socialist electors will appear on the ballots of 44 States. Last week they were ruled off in Oklahoma because the party had failed to poll a legal sufficiency...
...wheat. Five messengers on motorcycles wove through the dust of three big Texas counties bearing messages for his field foremen, his mechanics, his troublespotters. When harvest was over that year and the 22,000 acres of Hickman Price's land lay in stubble, he had raised a half-million bushels of wheat and harvested most...
Vastly more disappointed than Mr. Coolidge, who had probably given little thought to the matter, were the two chief candidates within the company, small Vice President Frederick W. Walker, one-time construction engineer, and a salesman named Charles Edgar Albright, who is conceded to have sold more million-dollar policies than any man in the history of life insurance. (Some of his clients: Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Arthur Brisbane, Eugene Meyer, Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll ["Amos 'n' Andy"], Harry Frankel [Barbasol's ''Singin' Sam"] and many another radio celebrity.) Between the trustees...
...want to get mixed up with Capone," said he wanted to die in New York.) He likes Manhattan, wants to go on living where he has always lived, on the Lower East Side. Estimating Manhattan's speakeasies at 100,000 and their employes at half a million, Izzy thinks Prohibition is here to stay-at least for a long time. Now that he is no longer a sleuth, he is making more money, he says, and getting more sleep. He has a job with the New York Life Insurance Co. "Yes, sir! What was good enough for ex-President...