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Reason for the party was revival of defunct St. Nicholas which, from a peak circulation of 88,000 in 1922, had tumbled through a succession of ownerships to obscurity. Its circulation fell below 40,000. Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas...
...your review of Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27) you quote Antony's last words to Cleopatra, "I am dying, Egypt, dying!", and attribute the line to Shakespeare. As a onetime resident of Cleveland TIME ought to know what every Ohioan knows, that the line was authored by Cincinnati's late, great General William Lytle, who was fatally wounded while leading a charge at Chickamauga...
...speech of Huey Long is "a splendid example of the lower middle classes of the Lower Mississippi Valley." Raymond Moley speaks purest Ohioan. Franklin Roosevelt is "a fine example of an educated American," using few localisms and little of the vestigial British accent typical of his class...
Smokeout. Major result of the cross-fire of accusation and denial was that smart little Hugo LaFayette Black's Senate investigating committee at last got onetime Postmaster General Brown to testify before it, no holds barred. Less than a week after he had written his fellow Ohioan, Senator Simeon D. Fess, that he would face the committee "at the earliest date convenient" and that "anything I may say may be used against me in any court in the land," Walter Brown walked into the committee's hearing room in the Senate Office Building...
Dearly would Socialist Norman Thomas of New York City like to be the eighth Ohioan, the third Princetonian to sit in the White House. Last week, at the Socialist National Convention in Milwaukee, he got his second chance with his second nomination. As in 1928, his running mate was chosen to be James H. Maurer, one-time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity...