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...patient, coldblooded, doubtless well paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between Canton and Pittsburgh along which bootleggers, white slavers and "reindeers" (dope-peddlers) have plied their flourishing trades. But the same route extends to many another Ohio city...
...time he reaches middle life to row his weight in the boat. Is the institution to waste its funds and are the students to be defrauded of their due for 20 years to ensure a livelihood to a man or woman who has proved incompetent or becomes intellectually stagnant...
...unmacadamized continuations of Main Street, and the innumerable satires on unprogressive small town life. But as we watched Glendale, this particular small town, being laughed at and bullied all over the stage, we felt a sharp tingle of resentment. Who knows, perhaps we were born in such a stagnant pool...
...there will be a very definite and easily measurable upturn in business. I mean by that something more than a change in sentiment and a foundation for hope. . . . Business is fundamentally sound despite the difficulties of some specific industries. The political situation is much more encouraging . . . Business has been stagnant so long that there has been a material accumulation of needs in almost all industry, and this must lead toward acceleration...
...Industry stagnant...