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Next day Uncle Sam's body was found. His two good parachutes were unopened. A garrulous dishwasher named Adrey, he had gotten the jumping job by palming himself off as one Joseph Wilson, an experienced cinema stunter. Inspectors doubted if he had ever seen a parachute before...
...taken into the O'Connell family's confidence. In Albany their word is law. They were going to get their boy back in their own way. Up to late last week they had not gotten him. Ransom asked: $250,000. Banker. The courtesy of a sick old gentleman, neither brewer nor swindler, resulted in his kidnapping at Alton, 111. one night last week. At 9 p. m., August Luer, 77, and his wife were preparing to retire when two men and a woman appeared at their door, said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers...
...will not sell below cost of production. But if they use the code to fix extortionate prices. I should have to step in. . . ." Administrator Johnson hoped that industries would keep prices in the background "for at least 90 days" until the nation's purchasing power had gotten a head start on rising price levels...
...jealousy, he whacks the caller on the jaw so hard he dies. Eddie runs away, Ruby goes to the reformatory. Eddie visits her, persuades an elderly colored clergyman calling on his wayward daughter to marry them in the institution's chapel. Their wedding, with policemen who have gotten wind of Eddie's presence pounding on the door, is the high point of the story. The closing shot shows Ruby and her son, who is older than he ought to be, waiting to meet Eddie when he returns from Sing Sing. She has secured...
Then came the War. Authoress Jameson has never gotten over it. Her brother was killed, most of her friends. "In 1932, what lying, gaping mouth will say that it was worth while to kill my brother in his nineteenth year? You may say that the world's account is balanced by the item that we have with us still a number of elderly patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these...