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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maine has gone. But not as Maine goes go all Mainiacs. In the fishing village of Friendship, Me. (near Rockland), for example, there is considerable animus towards both the Presidential candidates. "That Al Smith" would soon have the Pope of Rome prancing around in the White House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
Stormed Mr. Justice Humphreys, in his charge to the jury: "Perjury and foul perjury has been committed in this court. . . . Your duty is to say whether you are satisfied whether the perjury is on the side of these two constables. If so you ought to convict them. . . . I am not referring to the fact that the wretched girl is either a prostitute or something near it. That is beside the point...
That is to say, the Jury absolved Miss Adele of any specific misconduct, although the Judge had trespassed the bounds of legal propriety to accuse her in general...
...would be very difficult to say in what respect an American musical play is better than a musical play which is not American. Also it would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which...
...less a personage than Roy Archibald Young, governor of the entire Federal Reserve system.? As the Federal Reserve had taken the lead in the war on speculation, as the credit situation was the only real issue at Philadelphia, bankers waited with intense interest for what Governor Young might say. In Manhattan, the market was uneasy...