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...recent Mexican revolution. New York, to his mind, controls Mexico, as it does the rest of Pan America. It maintains this control in spite of the recent passage by the Mexican congress of a law which directs practically 40 per cent of all oil to the reservoir and the pocketbook of the Mexican government. Oil determines all American intercourse with Mexico...
...thief whom I knew rather well expressed this viewpoint in the following way. 'I get soaked for stealing a pocketbook; why doesn't a banker get punished for stealing a railroad...
Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...
...industry. Sales of radio sets and parts have increased from $2,000,000 in 1920 to $400,000,000 in 1924, and the "saturation point" is still apparently far away. The radio industry appeals to the average American's imagination, and how far it will fatten his pocketbook remains to be seen...
...amuse; well-written verse and doggerel sometimes. We didn't see the story about the man who took his maiden to "What Price Glory" unsuspectingly, was correspondingly worried as to her reaction, but when she turned to him in the middle of the second act, and, pointing to her pocketbook on the floor, said "Pick up that g--d--n bag" he decided the show was tame for her; but, to complete this rather involved sentence, while we didn't see the story in Lampy, we know it is one of the newest and best, so we feel sure that...