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With a cavernous, crashing rumble and roar which made thousands of people stir in their sleep, and with a titanic splash and spuming which only a few noctambulating tourists beheld, the Niagara River did early one morning last week something that it has not done since 1850-chewed off another giant chunk of the ledge which makes Niagara Falls. The new notch in the falls' brink is about 150 ft. wide, 250 ft. deep. Geologists say that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda...
Because they are spectacular and photographic, catastrophes like fires and floods stir public imagination, bring generous popular relief. Because they are intangible, slow-working disasters with long-delayed effects, droughts are soon forgotten and minimized by citizens outside the afflicted area. When the Mississippi flooded in 1927 the Red Cross quickly raised $17,000,000 by popular subscription for relief. The Drought of 1930 was left to the Red Cross to relieve with a $5,000,000 "emergency" fund and no special public appeal...
...Liberal Club and the Socialist Club have attempted to arouse interest in discussion of political and social events, but their hard-working efforts have not been able to stir the molasses of an indifferent community. Perhaps, with their fathers riding on the crest of the stock market, the sons have considered as settled all economic problems...
...attorney for the late William B. Ward. The Kent reply to the Morrow attack attributed earnings declines to general depression, stressed the company's sound cash position. "In times of depression," said the management's letter to stockholders, "there will appear designing individuals who will seek to stir up dissension and seize upon it to accomplish selfish ends. . . . We must . . . warn you against any scheme . . . which may have as its object stock manipulation for the benefit of the few." Between-the-lines readers saw in this statement a suggestion that a Morrow victory might result in a merger...
...pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful father. With great self-possession he scraped a little curtsey, gave a rarely luminous performance of the Concerto, returned to his towering escorts...