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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While I am not a subscriber to your magazine, which I find very interesting except when it becomes flippant with religion, I often buy it at newsstands and have been impressed with your "inside" information. For this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night...
Economy (after flaying the Republicans for their failure to reorganize the Governmental machinery as in 1921 they promised): "The administration spokesman answers only: 'We have given an economical administration,' and that has been repeated so often that some people begin to believe it without the slightest proof. I assert that there is no proof...
...Dinner-often with Dr. Stresemann. But he seldom goes on to the theatre and almost never to the night clubs. However, there is a young secretary of the British legation, or a clever attache of the Turkish; and there is really no reason why the wife of the great Foreign Minister who is too fat to dance should not go to night club parties squired by discreet, ambitious gallants, each under the thumb of his Ambassador or Minister. Midnight is early, 2 average, 8 late...
...called Bratt System of liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...
...frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women of the town ... 'I shall never dance again...