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Were it not for his native store of that urbanity which knows no frantic distress, no crying in the wilderness nor whining in the prior, the Vagabond would be sore at heart. He comes from his annual scuffle with the defenders of that most unaccountable of God's creatures, the Boston debutante. And of course his eloquence has been vain in the face of adamantine prejudice. The Vagabond, however, would not have his wisdom lost to humanity and he here sets down for the Ages the choicest of his thoughts...
...jailing followed a frantic day. At 3:30 a. m. a Chicago Assistant State's Attorney had awakened him at his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. and demanded his voluntary return to Chicago. He flatly refused. Next morning he and his loyal friends Mr. & Mrs. William Barker of Highland Park, Ill. who had arrived in their car during the night to be with him, motored to Toronto to see lawyers. A Canadian warrant for his arrest had been issued, he was advised to surrender. At 9:30 p. m. he gave himself up to the Canadian...
What agreement was reached in final frantic haste, His Majesty's Government and censors, left unclear last week, stressing instead the great fact that the agreement had satisfied Mahatma Gandhi. It was said that to the agreement proper His Majesty's Government appended "certain reservations"?and the Kingdom of Egypt is regulated from London by means of "reservations" inserted when His Majesty's Government "recognized it as an independent sovereign State" in 1922. Observers could assume no more than that Mr. Gandhi had received convincing assurances that the caste barriers (which he has fought so long to break down...
Cornered bears, fat with three years' profits, fought madly to cover their short positions. Badly squeezed, they howled loud & long. Once the rally was well under way their frantic buying helped pool managers to push stocks up & up. Outstanding leader of the advance was American Telephone & Telegraph, which soared from $70¼ a share to $114¼. U. S. Steel more than doubled its Depression low of $214-; many stocks tripled in value. Large orders from European money centres swelled the volume of U. S. buying, the dollar rose smartly...
...East Orange, N. J., Joseph Wooten yawned mightily, dislocated his jaw, was taken to a hospital. While an attendant was leading him down a corridor, Joseph Wooten felt his jaw lock. Frightened, frantic, he jumped out a window, killed himself...