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...white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river in South America as a 20-ft., boulder-strewn torrent, "fed by myriad brooks which emanate from the surrounding mountains...
...Published by the Associated Press last week was the historic, closely guarded letter which Germany's President Hindenburg wrote President Hoover the day the debt holiday plan was announced in June. Excerpts: "The dire distress of the German people which is now at its highest peak compels me to turn to you. . . . Every possibility of improving the situation by internal measures, without relief from the outside world, has been exhausted. The economic crisis strikes the German people who have been robbed of their reserves through the consequences of the War, with especial vehemence. . . . The ability, the will to work...
...prediction today, deliberately made on the floor of the Senate, that after the passage of this [Hawley-Smoot] bill . . . this nation will be on the upgrade, financially, economically and commercially within 30 days, and that within a year from this time we shall have regained the peak of prosperity we lost last October...
...value of reform. Some (but they would be illadvised) might take him for a cynic. In his estimates of the history he shared he is realistic; only in his prophecy does he tinge his phrase with a shade of bitterness. ''My prophecy, from the British peak of Europe, is that we also shall have a government of the people by gentlemen for the business...
Although the magazine had begun to deteriorate editorially, 1920 found it at the peak (up to then) of its fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days?a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...