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...money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent one day in Utah, the next in Idaho, the next in Washington, the next in Wyo ming, the next in Nebraska, the next in Iowa, the next in Michigan, the next...
...come again Saturday evening, Oct. 31; Wednesday matinee, Nov. 4; Friday evening, Nov. 6--"Hands Across the Sea," "The Astonished Heart," Red Peppers." Wednesday evening, Oct. 28; Thursday evening, Oct. 29; Monday evening, Nov. 2; Wednesday evening, Nov. 4; Saturday matinee, Nov. 7--"We Were Dancing," Fumed Oak," "Shadow Play." Friday evening, Oct. 30; Saturday matinee, Ot. 31; Tuesday evening, Nov. 3; Thursday evening, Nov. 5; Saturday evening, Nov. 7--"Ways and Means," "Still Life," "Family Album...
Christian M. Tauritzen, Stoughton 22, Chicago Latin School, Chicago, Ill.; Douglas Mercer, Wigglesworth A-31, Belmont Hill, Brookline; Walter Ridder, Straus B-31, Portsmouth Priory School, New York City; Phil Neal, Grays 33, Oak Park and River Forest High, Oak Park, Ill.; Herbert Scheinberg, Matthews 21, De Witt Clinton High School, New York City...
...nucleus was a group of 69 New York retailers calling themselves the "Acorn Stores." In its second year the IGA oak was spreading all over the U. S., did a total business of $60,000,000. By the end of 1928 there were IGA stores in 36 states. From his Chicago headquarters President Grimes planned country-wide sales campaigns to move macaroni, coffee, candy. He gave his grocers clean new forms for efficient budgeting, sent them experts in store-brightening and toothsome display. Deciding that convention speeches were tiresome, he sent out a traveling troupe to stage edifying grocery skits...
Sitting back in his executive chair in the Chicago office last week, Grocer Grimes had the satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems...