Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Attorney's office to act. Everyone expected the intervention and assistance of Federal forces, lately so loudly active in Manhattan. But no one expected what actually happened. The Federals announced that the government could do absolutely nothing. The statement of the Federal Grand Jury read as follows: "Inasmuch as wood alcohol is not a beverage, but a recognized poison (analogous to prussic acid or iodine) and its use and sale are not regulated by any of the Federal laws, we respectfully report that in those particular instances the subject matter is for the consideration of the State authorities...
...Rogers proceeded to take charge of an organization whose shingle, blazing on a Madison hotel, read: "Progressive Republican Headquarters, Alfred E. Smith for President...
Sending someone to vote in the name of a person known to be out of town. Folding the ballots so that, after they have been cast, they can be read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes...
...Urge to Merge U. S. newspapers, unlike the people who read them, are growing fewer in number. In almost every city, the urge to merge, to kill one newspaper for the profit of an, other, is strong. Chicago once had five morning newspapers; now it has only two, the opulent Tribune and Hearst's Herald and Examiner.* Cleveland, with more than a million inhabitants, has only one morning newspaper, two evening. The climax of the urge to merge is the city with a complete newspaper monopoly-a morning-evening-Sunday paper under the ownership of one man or corporation...
...Dancing Daughters shows young life cocktailored by Director Harry Beaumont. It is exactly the atmosphere on the screen that F. Scott Fitzgerald's books have when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted...