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...many a veteran, had even been mentioned as a candidate for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, where no U. S.-born maestro has ever held a job. Baltimore critics liked his version of Wagner, his lacy, intricate French scores by Ravel and Debussy, declared him the "most imagina tive" they had heard "in a long time," prophesied a brilliant future...
...place." This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business. For $2 a month, paid in advance, "Dr." Harley guaranteed that no cus tomer need have a baby. For contracep tive he dispensed a "Magic Oil." In case of pregnancy he stood ready to perform an abortion...
After litigation by investors, the Coopera tive Society of America sank from sight...
...Meantime interested persons made an inventory of the President's second casket: Sop No. 1. The U. S. will increase the amount of silver in its monetary stocks until the proportion reaches 25% silver, 75% gold. This is, however, merely a declaration of policy, an "ultimate objec-tive" for which no date is set. Sop No. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury will buy silver until this objective is attained-some 1,300,000,000 oz. or approximately twice the amount the U. S. now holds. However he will buy only if and when his own judgment tells...
...show insurgent leanings at 14 when he campaigned for farm organizations. He drifted to Panama to become a gang boss during the Canal's construction. A char ter member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, he was nominated for Vice President in 1924, declined to run. Ac tive in the steel strike of 1919. the packinghouse strikes of 1920, he was for six years editor of the People's Voice at Green Bay, Wis., is still editor of the Organized Farmer of Red Wing, Minn. Five years ago he addressed an envelope to a Red Wing banker thus...