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Author Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
Thus small Belgium sounded the first official tocsin against German monarchists whose activity revived as soon as President von Hindenburg called into being the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). Cartoons for and against the Hohenzollerns are printed almost daily in German papers of all sorts. But among the monarchists there are indeed grave "disagreements." Most monarchists are content to wait for a sudden, national emergency, such as the death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern? not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria...
...roused form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...
Rising wheat prices rang the speculative tocsin loudly and fiercely last week. Other commodities became buoyant. Good cheer spread to Wall Street...
...number of Fords sold in France prior to the scrapping of famed Model T. The introduction of the new Fords held up production, but the new "Henri's" are now ready for the French market. La Journée Industrielle, French industrial magazine, has been beating the tocsin, sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor car production-both trucks and passenger cars-amounts to about 250,000 cars per year, whereas U. S. automobile makers expect a 1,000,000 increase over 1928 production, it is obvious that...