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Suddenly and unexpectedly last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee voted to halt its probe of Wall Street. No decision was made on whether it would start again in the autumn but politicians know that most such investigations when once allowed to lapse are seldom revived. The Committee returned to...
Solely to amuse themselves, a group of friends at Provincetown, Mass., 16 summers ago, went over to Hutchins Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young...
In court last week the Government presented its case. Then Mr. Denison, one of whose three attorneys was Everett Sanders, onetime Indiana Congressman, onetime secretary to President Coolidge, took the stand, told his story: a mix-up had occurred on the steamship dock in New York. Mr. Denison had brought...
Old dishonors are unpleasant to think about; they have an odor in the memory like the faintly sour stench that rises from a trunkful of athletic gear that has been shut up a long time. But everyone remembers, if reluctantly, the baseball scandal of 1919, when certain players of the...
"I made money enough in Virginia City, last spring, to set me going," continued Travers, "and the family were so delighted that they came out to California to spend the summer. They have been travelling around, seeing the sights, and are now here in town staying at the best hotel...