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...front cover) Monster demonstrations for Smith along the Atlantic seaboard were the most interesting topic of the week for Democrats (see p. 13). Did those great crowds mean votes - or curiosity? Was Demos what Alexander Hamilton called it, "a great beast," or was it a thinking creature of articulate enthusiasms? Republicans also pondered the Smith ovations, both as campaign phenomena and with reference to a problem of their own. What were Republicans to think of Nominee Hoover's cry of warning against "State socialism" in his New York speech last fortnight? Was that a sincere cry against a genuine...
...Senator Norris, to whom water power was the dominant issue, there was only one course. Last week, from the same platform in Omaha where Nominee Smith was first introduced to the mid lands, he declared himself a Smith man and made the power trust a campaign monster...
...leader came into the stadium, the crowd roared and then became quickly silent; Dorando was swaying in his stride and his face was that of a man charging against some invisible monster who held his shoulders and would not let him move. His legs were red with running; they twisted under him suddenly like sticks of cinnamon and he lay crumpled in the dirt just beyond the bicycle track. A man named McAndrews ran out and helped him to his feet; Dorando staggered three steps and fell again; two men helped him up this time; the track was full...
...have remembered all the other essentials for life's picnic. Margaret Lawrence has played roles in which she was far more charming than she is now as Mrs. Anne Whiteman; but, having had the courage to be unattractive, she also has the skill to make herself a nagging monster. The most noteworthy events in the career of Margaret Lawrence have been her returns to the stage; one, in 1918, after several years of leisure; the other last year after a period of diverting the Antipodes...
Banker Hecht views banking concentration, formation of chain banks, with the utmost alarm. Articulate, he found phrases: "Financial feudalism . . . economis vassalage . . . financial octopus . . . Branch banking is a monster of such frightful mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks...