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...Monday the Loop was once more quiet. But behind closed doors there was great todo. Central figure in a long bankers' conference was Charles Gates Dawes, lately resigned from Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s presidency to assume the chairmanship of his Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. Since his return to Chicago during the Republican Convention, speculation had run high as to why he had resigned from R. F. C. at what seemed like the peak of the corporation's activities...
...most foreign-policied President since Woodrow Wilson is Herbert Hoover. In six months in office he has stirred up a new naval disarmament todo, and last week he opened up another question, discarded not so long ago: U. S. adherence to the World Court...
...protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...Republicans nominated Frank D. (Fountain Pens) Waterman without any todo, giving him 114,000 votes to 17,000 and 5,000 for his two opponents. The Socialists nominated Norman Thomas...
Arguments Pro. The argument of the birth control propagandists is essentially as follows: The present law is unevenly enforced. The well- todo, educated part of the population, especially the professional groups, many of whom oppose any relaxation of the present restrictions, generally have access to such knowledge and are obviously limiting the number of their children. The birthrate of the United States, now about 22 per thousand population, as well as of all the more advanced countries, has declined steadily in the past half century since the agitation for birth control (starting in England with Robert Owen, Francis Place...