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...called him to help the Democracy. He was there with his two daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town??? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress in 1930. Jouett Shouse was making about $50,000 per year...
Because the alarm came from an unsavory part of town???in which Reporter Leary had conducted a vice investigation six months ago and for which he was permitted to carry a pistol?Acting Captain of Detectives Thomas Rowe collected reserves from headquarters, deputized Reporter Leary on the spot. From whimpering Mrs. Bray the identity and whereabouts of the murderer were found. Captain Rowe, Reporter Leary and seven others went in after him, cornered him in a dark back room. Leary was ordered outside to cover the window with a flashlight...
...conspicuously eventful week this play from England was easily the sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town???Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...fact, however, the limerick had not wasted away in the decades between Mr. Lear's book and the Graphic's rediscovery. Indeed, it has been a more or less regular attraction for some weeks in a contemporary though not a rival of the Graphic, published indeed in the same town???the literary supplement of The New York Evening Post. In the latter have been appearing for some weeks such gems...
Meanwhile in his home town??? Evanston?he made his first political speech of the year to an admiring, but mixed-partisan, gathering of neighbors...