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Assuredly Miss Daniels, who never stops chewing gum throughout the entire picture, has the ambitions of her profession at heart. Although she falls some-what short of her purpose, she makes "The Splendid Crime" interesting, which it wouldn't have been without...
...Chinese eyes the Customs Conference at Peking became some-what more than an academic forum when U. S. Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray arose and recited specific proposals favored by Washington for granting to China the tariff autonomy which she requested at the opening of the Conference (TIME...
...Family Upstairs. The some-what rough and tumble domesticity of another $40-a-week family is herein chronicled. It is the same type of family that dwelt in the household of The Show-Off, possibly a notch or two more distinguished than the clattering denizens of The Fall Guy. These humans react in primitives. The chief feeling of a visitor within their precincts is laughter at their meddling monotonies tempered with sorrow for their errors...
...risen about 50% in price during the past year, corn about 70%, oats about 40%, hogs about 40%, lambs about 25%; and whereas cotton, though lower in price is compensated by a larger crop, yet the prices for range cattle remain persistently low. Fattened cattle, from the cowbelt have risen some-what in price. But the raisers of range cattle have had no profit since 1921 and most of them are "broke." What they need, it is said, is liberal financing, on easy terms...
Scribbling on a tavern table, inflamed with love and drink, the great scamp of poets, null Villon, asked: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" A political observer might be tempted to ask the same question, with some-what less of pathos and something more of irony: "Twenty months ago a struggle for the Presidency commenced. But where are the men, the issues, of that yesteryear? Then was the springtime of political hope. Now is the autumn of political fruition. But where are the snows whence sprang this herbage...