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This week slim little James John Walker officially ceased to be Mayor of the City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for...
Among the Habbe cliff-dwellers Seabrook found everything topsy-turvy. A thief is punished with death, for they argue that if he steals once he will do it again, and as no one keeps his valuables locked up, stealing must be kept down. But if a man commits murder they...
The Prince's dogs outdo the Grand Duke's in the hunt. Enraged, that fine gentleman flicks an eye from one of his hounds with his whip and gets toweringly drunk after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry...
Meanwhile the Farm Board's wheat stablization operations produced topsy-turvy economic results. In the face of a falling world market the Board bought Chicago wheat around 76? per bu., pegged the domestic price at that leve. George S. Milnor, president of Grain Stabilization Corp., declared: "Domestic conditions do...
The period of falsification had been long enough to give U. S. citizens and Englishmen the impression that Mrs. Sarojini ("Death or Victory") Naidu is a particularly funny female joke. Naturally there is a sense in which scrawny St. Gandhi and his whole topsy turvy nonviolent struggle is history'...