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...Shore, Jersey City, N. J., P. Shuebruk, Cohasset, J. P. Squire, Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I., L. Srole, Chicago, Ill., D. M. Sullivan, Boston, A. E. Taylor, Pomona, Cal., A. J. Torrielli, Watertown, W. I. Tucker, Baltimore, Md., L. Urow, Lynn, R. K. Vietor, Amesbury, G. B. Walker, Lake Placid Club, N. Y., J. D. Wassersug, Dorchester, T. F. Waters, 2d., Fall River, I. R., Wechsler, Newark, N. J., S. J. Wener, New York City, A. W. Wilkinson, Phoenix, Ariz., C. W. Williams, McKeesport, Pa., L. Williams, Cambridge, B. A. Winter, East Cleveland, Ohio, D. N. Yerkes, New Haven, Conn...
...genuineness appeared when Seth Parker and his troupe went touring-from Buffalo early last month, continuing in Colorado. Utah, Oregon and California last week. Everywhere, audiences seem to represent a class which could not be won by smart, theatrical revivalism. To city theatres, churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They see "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors" performed with no "props" save a fireplace, chairs and the melodeon. Of plot the entertainment has little...
...same platform sat Mr. C.H. Minor, representing International General Electric. "Bryan was right!" cried he. "Bryan was merely ahead of his time." Other Britons taking these cues, there was soon in full swing last week what might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus...
...controls one-tenth of the wealth in the U. S. But Episcopal dignity, grounded in ease and security, can become ruffled with changing times and new problems. It was evident last week that the Episcopalians' 50th triennial General Convention, opening in Denver, Col., was to be considerably less placid than the 49th, which President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge opened in Washington (TIME...
Disheartened Mexican laborers were returning from the U. S. in droves, unable to find employment. They were poor, they were hungry and all the grocery stores seemed to be owned by plump, placid Chinese. Nationalistic mobs gathered. At least three Chinese were killed by angry crowds. Stores were broken open, Chinese homes set afire. Town councils forcibly closed other stores; taxes were raised; shop-keepers were fined for non-compliance with...