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...more credence to the view held by such realistic optimists as myself that the country is in the hands of men who are as competent in the economics as they are in the politics of recovery under capitalism. As an enthusiastic and not unbiased observer of the professional sideshow being staged by the Harvard Economics Department (de facto) and the banks versus the Columbia Economics department (de jure) and the Roosevelt legend, I cannot help but conclude that the latter group has kept more than one step ahead of the former by conjuring up a lot of cardboard windmills, notably...
...speaker. O'Brien is busy pleading for fair play and no quotations; Laguardia occupies himself in smearing his two opponents with the same Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee injected an interesting sideshow to the three-ring circus yesterday when he brought out masses of evidence to prove that Laguardia was in thought, and in deed a true Communist of the most virulent sort. By a chain of irrefutable logic he showed that since Comrade Fiorello had signed his name to the roster...
...shot for the last time. Mrs. Diamond toured in small-time vaudeville for a while, giving a short lecture on what a misunderstood man her husband had been. Then she drifted into burlesque. The final low of her theatrical career was hit at Coney Island in a sideshow. When not on duty she liked to go to the shooting galleries. Kiki Roberts, who is pretty, did considerably better in hei vaudeville appearances. This spring Mrs. Diamond got to drinking, and when she drank she talked. In a Brooklyn speakeasy the fat and garrulous widow would boast that she was "tired...
Lilly Turner (First National), played by Ruth Chatterton, is a small town girl whose first marriage turns out disastrously when she learns that her husband, a loud-mouthed magician, is a bigamist. A bibulous sideshow barker (Frank McHugh) marries her to save her from the disgrace of having an illegitimate child and Lilly Turner spends the rest of the picture gloomily giving him money to buy whiskey. They leave their carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights that he goes...
...Sideshow. Still spotlighted throughout the investigation's second week was big-bodied John Pierpont Morgan, though he was not again called to the witness stand. Hour after hour he sat to one side in a spindly little chair watching the proceedings. Clustered about him were his partners. Not a day passed but the country was told the pattern of his suit, the color of his tie. When the afternoon session was over Mr. Morgan would return to the Carlton Hotel, opposite the White House, where he and his friends were paying $2,000 per day for five floors...