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Seven Chicago artists last week had seven simultaneous one-man shows in the Chicago Art Institute, biggest one-man show spree in the Institute's history. The seven Director Robert Bartholow Harshe had dredged from Chicago's polyglot Bohemia included a Russian, a German...
With the money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing...
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...Year's not a Tuesday has gone by without a potshot or broadside by Editor George Horace Lorimer in the general direction of Washington. Recurrently the Post flayed the Brain Trust, the Treasury, NRA, ''made" work, experimentation, the Democratic Party, President Roosevelt. It proclaimed that the Government's "spending spree" was conceived to "make [the world] safe for everyone except those who have saved." Of wealth it warned that "redistribution can easily become confiscation." Its editorial titles seemed to strike Republican keynotes: "Who Is Going to Pay?," "It's Too Much for Me," "Roads to Nowhere," "Human Rights and Lefts...
...Several months ago graft charges were preferred in a local court against the "Red Prince," but he brazenly announced, "I am called away from Georgia on an imperative official mission." Before he was caught he had squandered 128,000 rubles on the grandest Bolshevik spree on record...