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...Police Gazette," in announcing the suspension of next week's edition, has surrendered to Fate at last. Next Saturday, good citizens will buy their tabloids all unheeding, and there will be few to weep. But somewhere on the Styx, the shades that once thronged Rector's, Sherry's, and Delmonico's are remembering their old pink sheet. And in that Nirvana where horses go, many an old jade is tossing his head in memory of the Victorias and four-in-hands...
...fractional levy on member banks' deposits to aid other member banks; 2) $200,000,000 from the Treasury for nonmember State banks. The first fund would be supplemented by all Federal Reserve Bank earnings in excess of 6% dividend requirements. Last week it was likely that, whatever the fate of the Glass Bill was as a whole, this part might be lifted out bodily and passed by itself...
...years of warfare hundreds of Italian soldiers and at least 20,000 Senussites have been killed. No less a person than little King Vittorio Emanuele's own cousin, the Duke of Apulia, harried the Senussites mightily from the sky. Last winter their ultimate fate was sealed when General Graziani cut them off from fleeing into Egypt by building a formidable barbed wire fence 180 mi. long...
Pros & Cons, Governor Roosevelt's proximity to that nomination raises pregnant questions: What manner of man is he and of what stuff is he made? Is he bold and courageous and independent or is he just an honest politician whom Fate has tossed to the top? Has he the capacity to govern? Does his mind generate large ideas of political reformation or does he just utter lofty platitudes...
Most moods, most occasions must be rather grisly affairs to find these tales sympathetic. Of them Translator Samuel Putnam writes: "Here were no tragedies of the adamant will in self-ruinous conflict with an ineluctable Fate. Here, rather, was a disheartened and disheartening abandonment to the stream of an ignoble destiny." Maestro Pirandello considers Europe "senile, full of animated corpses." He writes of its brownstone-fronted society as if he smelled a rat, as if the rat had been dead a considerable length of time...