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...present financial discomfiture Governor McCray said: " Boiled down to one fact, you find a farmer, a landowner, who is caught after three disastrous years in the farming business. I could not collect my bills and found myself unable to meet some of my obligations. ... I happen to be Governor of Indiana, but this is a private matter that has happened to other farmers. The state has not suffered. I do not see that the public should be greatly interested." William Jennings Bryan went to California to visit his son-in-law. There he took opportunity to say that President Coolidge...
...POPOMACK-W. J. Turner-Brentanos ($1.50). The popomack is a fruit- the rarest and most delicious fruit known to mankind. It had only one drawback-its unpardonable smell- and the fact that that smell transferred itself to anyone who ate the fruit. Lord Revoir ate of the popomack. What happened to him then is the theme of this extraordinary allegorical play by a young British poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew...
None of these things happen in Little Johnny Jones. Everything moves so smoothly on schedule that the happy ending is simply the dull finish...
...especially at the beginning of these months. During July, 57,495 immigrants came to this country, and about half the 41 nations listed filled their maximum monthly quotas. At this rate the annual quota for all nations will be filled in six months-or rather, as will probably happen, a large number of nations will fill their quotas in five months, and the small remainder will go on more slowly, gradually filling their allotments...
Magnus Johnson, recently elected Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota, ejaculated to reporters: " Many think the same thing that happened in Russia cannot happen in this country, but don't fool yourself. It could happen here before you knew what was going on. . . . Sixty-five per cent, of the wealth of this country is in the hands of 2% of the' population, and, unless there is a better distribution of this wealth, the common people are going to revolt against...