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...errand "purely sociable," small James John Walker, Mayor of New York and foreign minister of Tammany Hall, proceeded last week into, through, and roundabout the Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went...
...This roundabout suggestion of Federal investigation followed the positive demand made in Manhattan last week by the executive committee of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers that the Federal Trade Commission study the business methods of all chain store organizations. The butchers accuse the chain stores of misleading advertisements, false bargain sales, short weights and price cutting...
Nancy Hoyt, sister of Poetess Elinor Wylie, devotee of the Great God Mencken, is a worldly wise young lady adept at cynical, momentary elegance of thought and phrase. Her previous novel, Roundabout, was not "popular...
...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...
...Baby; 2. The Girl Friend; 3. After I Say I'm Sorry; 4. Cherie; 5. Let's Talk About My Sweetie; 6. Do You Believe in Dreams; 7. No Fooling; 8. Cossack Love Song; 9. Say It Again; 10. Sweet and Low Down; 11. Horses; 12. I Found a Roundabout Way to Heaven; 13. Twilight Voices; 14. Just a Cottage Small; 15. Honey Bunch; 16. Georgiana; 17. Lonesome and Sorry; 18. Static Street; 19. Betty; 20. Good Night...