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Last week, with Franklin Roosevelt's second Presidential campaign about to start. Ray Moley was far from the side of his old friend and patron. Distinctly cold to the President's Tax Bill (TIME, March 23), increasingly chummy with those whom Franklin Roosevelt chooses to call "economic royalists," Dr. Moley has frequently in Vincent Astor's Today warned the New Deal to reef its sails. Last week Editor Moley used Dr. George Gallup's latest Institute of Public Opinion poll showing Governor Landon to have an electoral majority (TIME, July 20) as a peg on which...
...suburban Chicago's North Shore. Later, not instruments but voices made Ravinia famed. The Ravinia Opera which Louis Eckstein produced, signing up the best artists, casting them, supervising every production detail, cost him some $1,500,000 before Depression halted it four years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932). Patron Eckstein, who kept hoping to revive Ravinia, died last winter. Last week there was orchestra music once more in the open-sided theatre at Ravinia Park, a major North Shore event for Chicago society editors but otherwise a pale shadow of pre-Depression days...
...Here the uncontradicted evidence shows that the plaintiff is actuated by the bona fide intent to give each and every patron a valid option to buy a particular dog. If such patrons choose to flaunt [sic] his good intentions and buy options to line their pockets with unholy gains they cannot thereby make a criminal out of him. Were the rule otherwise, every cotton and commodity broker or dealer in the land would be in jail before nightfall. Does anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery...
...before a joint session of the Legislature, shared the credit with Senator Bilbo and Mississippi's Representatives. Thus all went well until Senator Bilbo was well entrenched. Then last January President Roosevelt nominated Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes, a son-in-law of Pat Harrison's old patron, the late, great Senator John Sharp Williams, for promotion from a Federal District Court in Mississippi to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Fourteen years ago when Mississippi's Governor Lee Maurice Russell was being tried for seduction of a State Capitol
...pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...