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...like tone of the prose, the play is essentially unsuccessful, at least in the study. Whether it may act well is another question, which one may be disposed to doubt. The chief character is Michael Ransom, a young archaeologist, who is hired by the British Government to explore the peak of a mountain called F6 by the geographers. Ostensibly the reason is the advancement of archaeology, but we are shown, not so clearly as might have been that the reason is imperialist. Empire is to advance, a tribal nation is to be suppressed as the part of a programme...
...back. There never was such a depression in railroad history as the last one. A typical victim was the thoroughly sound Illinois Central. I. C.'s President Lawrence Aloysius Downs once revealed that after the panic of 1907, his road's revenues declined 4%. The drop from peak to valley was only 8% in the depression of the 1890's, only 20% in 1870's, only 24% after the crash of 1857. From 1929 through 1933 Illinois Central's loss in annual revenues was more than 50%, approximately the figure for U. S. railroads...
...going through the most rapid expansion in credit business that retailing has ever experienced, are we not headed for serious trouble at the next downward curve of the vicious cycle and would it not be well to remember as the credit sales mount to an ever higher peak that beyond the highest peak there is always a valley?" Not daunted by this notion was Joseph L. Fowler, of Boston's Jordan Marsh, who urged the end of the dunning letters, proposed for delinquent accounts notices that were "mild in tone, neat in appearance, impersonal in nature." An outside suggestion...
...Democracy is finished! Democracies today are simply the centres of infection- the tools for Bolshevism. That is one group. We are the other group. . . . Democracy is sand driven by the wind. Our political ideal is a rock like a granite peak. . . . This is the beginning of a new peaceful situation. We have, through it, several years of calmer development before...
...most festive of Paramount's present crop, was only one of a series of ceremonies arranged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his start in the cinema industry. The Zukor Silver Jubilee, which began Jan. 7 and will last, according to Paramount publicity, for 17 weeks, reached its peak two weeks before the Champagne Waltz premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema Tsar Will Hays called Producer Zukor "a splendid American', a great leader," Leopold Stokowski conducted a 150-piece orchestra, Paramount's contract players joined in a floor show which, on a basis...