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...first installment of "This Is My Story," Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt's autobiography. These memoirs were billed as the first ever -written by a First Lady while resident in the White House. The Journal editors promised that Mrs. Roosevelt's writings would be "unusually frank." The stark honesty of the first installment, released at the announcement party, made plain that this was one editorial boast which was likely to be fulfilled. Extracts...
After all the outery that followed Mr. Santayana's novel, to the effect that he was making fun of the Boston character, it is nice to see the truth at last revealed, all stark and naked: that the Boston character makes fun of itself--really...
...election was a great triumph for Kansas City's Democratic machine. Its endorsees swept all offices: Lloyd Crow Stark was elected Governor, 12 Democrats were elected to Missouri's 13 seats in the House of Representatives. Kansas City with only 10% of Missouri's population gave Roosevelt 30% of his majority in the State...
...bachelor realtor who is St. Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier than notorious Pittsburgh...
...months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...