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...stop the nomination of his former ally, though hardly enough to be chosen himself. It is possible to sympathize with Smith's desire for another attempt at the presidency, and still feel that the party's aims would be better reached by another man. In some measure, the fate of his party will perhaps hinge on the struggle between ex-Governor Smith's personal ambitions and his party loyalty...
...before they went away to brood. "We estimate that 70% of the people who consult us ultimately decide against suicide." said the Advisory Centre's quiet, kindly secretary. "It seems to be in mutual comparison of their troubles that our clients profit most. So many think their own fate unbearable, only to learn that it is better than that of others they meet here...
...minutes after he had left, old Levison was discovered dead on his office floor. Dick was arrested for murder. Everything looked very black indeed and Dick might have swung for it had not the British sense of justice, ably abetted by Author Young, rescued our hero from an undeserved fate. The Author, Francis Brett Young. 47, even more versatile than William McFee. is a novelist-musician-doctor. He practiced literature and medicine simultaneously, for a long time was more successful in diagnosing private ailments than the public taste. During the War he worked hard in the Royal Army Medical Corps...
...short story by the author of Sanctuary and The Sound and the Fury, it was limited to 400 copies, each signed by the author, has already been sold out. The story, told by an old mail-carrier of the Southwest with many false starts and digressions, relates the sad fate of a nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come out to the desert to nurse her "lunger" lover, ten years younger than herself. He recovered and one fine day up & left her. She stayed on in the lonely cabin...
...tally of bank closings (suspensions and failures and voluntary liquidations) as kept by the American Banker showed that the country's banks were being diminished at a rate of more than ten a day. Citizens Bank of Hickory Ridge, Ark., with $29,000 deposits, shared the same fate as Standard Trust Bank of Cleveland, first and greatest of the Brotherhood Banks, placed under independent management in 1930. Of Standard's $22,000,000 in assets at least $2,000,000 represented the engineering Brotherhood's "war chest," accumulated to finance possible strikes. Significant was the fact that...