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...President is giving no approval to any local candidate in any state," by no means allayed Boss Curry's and Fusionist La Guardia's apprehension that their contest might become three-cornered, dominated by a Flynn-Farley-(Roosevelt) entry. In such a contest Mr. McKee would doubtless draw from the La Guardia support, perhaps open the way for Mayor O'Brien to step back into office...
...sheerest luck had the police been able to recapture him the same day at Ardmore, Okla. And it was Bailey's fugitive partner, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly who last week threatened the life of Urschel and other witnesses if they testified at the trial. It was doubtless Kelly who threatened also to kidnap Peggy Ann, daughter of Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas unless he pardoned some Bailey gangsters now in Kansas Penitentiary. And Kelly was even linked to last week's robbery of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank which resulted in the murder of a policeman...
...will doubtless be amused to learn of some of the business deals which have been offered to me since the story of my Russian business adventures appeared in TIME (Aug. 21). I have been offered land and tracts of timber in almost every state in the Union. Innumerable propositions have been made to me to participate in a great variety of businesses, ranging from breweries to perfumeries...
President Roosevelt was well aware that unless he was able to make a substantial showing toward recovery by Jan. 3 when Congress next sits. Senator Harrison's prophecy would doubtless be fulfilled and currency inflation would be foisted on the country by an hysterical legislature. To head off such a development the President last week went off on a sharp credit inflation tack...
What can the plain reader make of all this? If he is in a good humor he will doubtless laugh, but at what? Sober-sided Critic Edmund Wilson gives as his opinion that: "Miss Stein is trying to superinduce a state of mind in which the idea of the nation will seem silly, in which we shall be conscious of ourselves as creatures who do not lend themselves to that conception." Still puzzled, the plain reader dips into another Stein volume (Tender Buttons), to his astonishment brings up these...