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...farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn...
...hour I wandered over the badlands, reading the story of life and death in the desert. Sixty million years ago, when these red sediments were being deposited, the drama was the same but with different actors. Then rhinoceroses trod this ground, the gigantic Andrewsarchus, greatest of all known flesh-eating land mammals, prowled at night, and fed upon the bodies of dying titanotheres. It was a world of nightmare creatures. The high plateaus of Africa today with their open plains and sparse forests offer a convincing parallel to ancient Mongolia...
...sand dune on a North Carolina coastal reef, Orville Wright started the tiny engine of a flimsy biplane, crawled aboard the lower wing and lay prone at the crude controls. The machine began to move. Brother Wilbur ran alongside steadying the wing. The ship left the ground, jerkily trod the wind for twelve marvelous seconds, nosed into the sand. A powered airplane had flown...
...remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right. If one might criticize Miss Laura Ferguson for languishing overmuch, there is always the answer that languishing...
...nuisance" tax item that appeared. In addition, he got back of the second-class postal rate increases. What he expected soon happened. The potent motor, radio, cosmetics, and candy lobbies whose products had been singled out for taxation sent up a wounded howl. The proposed tax on bank checks trod on the toes of the American Bankers Association. Publishers, many of them on failure's brink, protested the postal rates...