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...whole, though one gets the feeling that old Honest Bob, the people's friend, still can see what needs satirical comment, but has a hard time trying to write it. His nonsense falls just the least bit flat, but its a case of where a little goes a long way. He sees the faults of the day's work, but he sees them too obviously and the result is one which even the Gluyas Williams drawings have a hard time counteracting...
...whole. But old Dame Rumor couldn't let Ford's promising statement alone. A little bird has been informing the followers of the market that both Ford and Packard are planning to enter new candidates in the $1000 class, to compete with General Motors and Chrysler. This bit of information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws a new light on announcement of the Dearborn don. It now appears that Ford may have thrown down a gauntlet which will result in an unhappy competitive situation in the automobile industry with ruinous results...
This was the second allotment withdrawn in two days, and caused quite a bit of consternation in the city. Friday the government held up a loan of $2,500,000 in PWA funds...
...bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer has based his arguments merely on the mechanics of the dramatist. The case against him was complete when O'Casey read, with devasting humor, a bit of insipid dialogue from a current London social comedy...
...elite. Justice Carew, a modern Solomon as it were, assured the public Wednesday that the child ". . . is not to have for the future the life that it had from the death of its father up till June, 1932." Thursday the bench found it necessary to clarify this rather vague bit of rectification. The gilded arripling will by her own preference remain under the aegis of Mrs. Whitney for the present, but the court means eventually to turn her over to Mrs. Vanderbilt, as soon as the latter has arranged to provide a life in which she will be "assured...