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...yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes whole lecture shiploads of Mr. Priestleys to make the long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another U. S. citizen, pounced simultaneously on a Priestley error of fact. He had said that Americans buy but do not read books, cited as proof...
...leisurely life of the undergraduate is a welcome boon to those who are anxious to investigate as many of life's possibilities as they can. Though hundreds of students, Phi Beta Kappa as well as C men, are graduated in unconcerned ignorance of those widely different possibilities, other hundreds profit by the leisure of college to look at their future through more than one lens...
Judge Lyle's candidacy is an attempt to profit politically from his sudden headline reputation as the judicial scourge of Chicago's gang world. From the bench and with newshawks closely covering him he made a great dramatic and futile attempt to have the city's 26 "Public Enemies" arrested and held in exorbitant bail under an old vagrancy law (TIME, Oct. 13). So erratic and unstable that he had scant support from lawyers, Judge Lyle focused his campaign on the charge that Mayor Thompson was in league with the underworld, that Gangster Alphonse Capone had contributed...
...Nobody paid much attention. A lot of people are mortgaging things these days. Then suddenly Citizen Benham zoomed to fame. From a few friends Mr. Benham solicited funds to be invested. Soon he was inviting all Belvidere and nearby cities to give him money. His terms: profits of from 20% to 50%; to anyone bringing in new capital, 10% commission. How he earns the profit remains a mystery. He keeps an office in a small garage, will have no traffic with banks, operates under the name of Black Hawk Finance Co. Some rumorers say that he has made money...
...score was even, but the A. P. had enough of Illinois. It was hastily reorganized in New York as a non-profit membership association, not a business corporation, under the laws which regulate agricultural societies, fishing clubs...