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Professional traders in New Orleans admit they have lost the market ''to the boys from the country"?cotton dealers in small towns, country buyers, merchants, small business men who have never speculated before. It was reported that Arthur W. Cutten, famed Chicago bull, had skimmed much cream from the rally; there were no large killings in the South. Many old time speculators have been wiped out through ill-timed short-selling...
...still confused, that there was no connection save a distant cousinship between her late great husband and the Democratic nominee. Beneath striped awnings on the South grounds were tables piled with a buffet luncheon-potato and chicken salad, cold cuts, sandwiches, iced tea and lemonade, six kinds of ice cream. President Hoover moved informally among his guests, eating a little here, a little there. Six Negroes, including Perry Howard and Mrs. Mary Booze, G. O. Politicians from Mississippi, strolled easily through the white throng. 4,000 Friends. After a quiet family dinner at the White House the President, clad...
...dairies, their wives, children and sweethearts crowded gaily aboard the steamer Charles Macalester and set off down the Potomac from Washington for an outing. Soon after noon they went ashore at Marshall Hall, ate a luncheon of ham and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, milk, tea, watermelon, ice cream & cake. Two hours later a child collapsed. Parents warned their children to keep out of the sun. Then men & women began to feel ill. Directors of the picnic mustered most of them aboard the steamer, ordered Captain John H. Turner to return to Washington...
...workingmen's flats, deserted factories, ramshackle athletic clubs, empty lots cut up into thousands of little gardens each with a tool shed, many with a flagpole and a red Communist flag. Late last Sunday afternoon good citizens in Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined that there was trouble in Altona. Five minutes later armored cars roared past in the riot cars' wake. Waiters, no longer weary, knew there was real trouble in Altona...
...cloudburst of consequences. Helen Stevens the innocent U. S. princess, John Brent a U. S. oil man, the weazely Sloat, knightly bandits, politicians, Tsernagorean guards are soon embroiled in a terrific free-for-all from which Helen finally emerges in John Brent's arms asking for an ice-cream soda and a passage home...