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While America worries about cruisers and forgets isolation policies, the large cities of the nation are overrun with all the accoutrements of modern warfare. The unofficial standing army which overruns New York, Chicago, and Detroit is the proper place to make a large-sized cut, sending a good deal of the emigrant desperadoes engaged in looting the metropolitan centers, back to their native land. The rise of gangland to despotic rule has reached its peak of expansion at least. Disarmament -- like charity -- begins at Home...
Fortnight ago the Turkish Consul-General at New York told the Merchants' Association that his country was "desirous to come in touch with societies interested in hogs." Because pig-flesh is forbidden food to Moslems, he explained, Turkey is becoming overrun with wild swine. Perhaps some U. S. concern would like the concession for de-pigging Turkey...
Attendance in the third week of the wonder totalled well above a million. The crowds included Chinese, Jews, Irish, Gypsies, Southerners, Protestants, Boxer Jack Sharkey, Negro Boxer Sam Langford. So overrun was the cemetery that other graves were sadly desecrated, other funerals made impossible. Authorities had limited miracle-seeking hours between 7 a. m. and 5 p. m., then from...
...People say that the bull market of the last four years has caused an over valuation of all stocks. I don't think this is true. It was true in 1922 when industry was overinventoried. But in the closely knit organization of business today stock prices can't far overrun their real demonstrable value...
...contrary, Uganda is overrun by some 20,000 of them. Shrewd beyond telling, they seem to have learned which sections of the country are preserved by law as elephant sanctuary. Their numbers and appetites are so formidable that many of them have had, and will have, to be killed off annually to make gardening a rational pursuit for Uganda blackamoors...