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When Citizen Roosevelt reached the Presidential suite of the Mayflower Hotel, slips of yellow paper were already accumulating: "Boise, Idaho . . . Acting Governor Hill today declared a 15-day bank holiday. . . ." "Salem, Ore. Governor Meier today proclaimed a three-day bank. . . ." "Phoenix, Ariz. Governor Mocur today declared. . . ." "Carson City, Nev. A four-day legal. . . ." "Austin, Texas. . . ." "Salt Lake City...
...means downhearted or broke, gay Brazilians have just spent an estimated $7,000,000 on their uproarious three-day Mardi Gras Carnival (Feb. 26-28). celebrated amid sizzling, record summer heat by nearly a million merrymakers...
Maryland suddenly awoke to a three-day bank moratorium as the result of relentless runs. Outlook was for extension beyond its initial period...
Ohio's Governor White, refusing to declare a bank holiday, prepared legislation to hold withdrawals down to the level of the liquid assets. On his own hook the Mayor of Dayton ordered a three-day moratorium. In Cleveland, Akron, Lima, Canton, and many a smaller city, bankers agreed among themselves to limit withdrawals to a mere dribble of cash. The good-natured, holiday-spirited crowd which thronged the great lobby of Cleveland's Union Trust Co. to get what money it could was typical of similar gatherings in hard-hit States...
...high school damsels and police commissioners. There is Nancy Carroll swatting somebody or other behind the ear with a pretty green statue of September Morn, there is Cary Grant rigged out in the yachting costume of an Argentine cowboy, there are sober extras in the middle of a three-day cruise, there are finger print experts smearing powder on beige telephones, there are twenty-eight kisses, and a corpse. One reacts, of course, to the ingenuity of the "howler," somehow reminiscent of that cornet next door. But aside from this, no Kerr is spared in soothing the patronage...