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...Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down, always he was lonely, always there were the women. Mr. Black must have known a lot of Stacys; he makes this one significant because he is almost perfectly average. If too many klaxons blow in this book, if people seem to skid into each other's lives, trip each other up, like passengers at a slippery crossing, it is because the life Mr. Black has chosen to observe is like that; people are hatched too fast, buildings rise too quickly, traffic is hard to handle, walls are not very thick...
...cannot put him on the skid...
...credit inflation and a runaway stock market. Now, however, the task would be harder. We have more gold, less active business in many lines, and a Presidential election ahead. No good Republican would particularly enjoy seeing the brakes applied to the money market as hard as to cause a skid downhill similar to that experienced last year. As long as the Federal Reserve Board consists of political appointees, it is somewhat beside the point to declare that politics has nothing to do with business tendencies. This might be so were conditions normal. But they are not normal. We are sitting...
...permanency and a success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank and produces it, we'll use it as a skid to send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang hymns-Onward Christian Soldiers, etc. The President appeared on the portico...
...they cannot do it yet. To advertise an Air Carnival at Mitchel Field, L. I., Lieutenant Edwin Johnson obtained permission from the New York City authorities to land on Riverside Drive near Grant's tomb. His plane, the Speery Messenger, flew down under ideal conditions, but a skid on slippery asphalt caused a collision of plane and lamp post with damage to both. Still, the aviator flew back to Mitchel Field that same afternoon...