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...accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
Those who profess to believe that the Balkan pot is about to boil over into active warfare were not surprised last week when the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) printed, exclusively, excerpts from "secret instructions sent from Kemals [Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey] foreign office to the Turkish minister at Belgrade." This document was "intercepted by a secret agent of one of the Balkan powers." In it, Dictator Kemal outlines his country's moves in the event of a Balkan conflict, as follows...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...
...group themselves into a city," and Historian Guedalla lands at New York to begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight are Iowa, the state universities, the hotels, the promptly-answered telephones, and San Francisco, "tilted...
...especially safe-guarded bonds) lost. But they did not lose everything. Among the debris of the St. Paul's crash lay many a valuable share, which the re-organization managers, whom Jerome J. Hanauer's† gloved hand directed, fitted together a new pot for gold...