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...Royal Italian Big-Game Hunt reached a glorious climax in the jungles of Italian Somaliland when King Vittorio Emanuele III brought down a bull elephant with a single shot...
...places in the land where the New Deal's triumph was not a golden benison to Democratic political machines. No less than 25 Democratic Governors were elected to supply their Democratic followers with patronage, the stuff that machines are made of. For all of them it was a glorious victory...
...ardor. Their recommendations for Federal patronage were pigeonholed and other Democrats, not of their clique, got coveted appointments. None of this was a cheering prelude to the fact that Chicago must elect a new Mayor next spring. But last fortnight the New Deal swept the nation. Its results were glorious for Mr. Kelly. All his friends up for office in local elections won handily...
...Truth, if we operated under its system there would be no banking houses, no government, because there would simply be no need for them, and you could always get a loan of ten bucks. But that is not our system. We have made parasitism respectable, banking legal, and capitalism glorious. So let's take what we have, accept our limitations, and not try, at least, for the impossible. Thus, when we criticize the legislation of the Administration, we can not defend the bankers on any idea of Truth for the system of Truth negates the existence of banking. For this...
...screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized our American scene...