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LESTER L. SWIFT...
...Lucky Strike series, almost out of all human proportion. Yet while Camel cigarets have advertised smoking pleasure, while Chesterfield cigarets have maintained that taste is the cigaret's vital quality, while Old Gold cigarets have compared themselves to Rudy Vallée, radio crooner, and many another swift and contemporaneous success, American Tobacco and Lucky Strikes lave been enjoying prosperity in an unprosperous season, have made profit in an unprofitable year...
...HEAVEN SENT WITNESS (Doubleday, Doran) is a collection of the best stories of crime and mystery by J. S. Fletcher, one of the most popular. English detective story writers. The volume contains twenty-one thrilling tales, each one a miniature novel packed with swift action and suspense. In the title story a man in the vestibule of a through express looks casually at his watch, and from that slender clue the police, build up a case which hangs a murderer. Another of the stories, "The Button and the Bank Note", explains how Detective Sergeant Hubbertson solved a murder which...
...Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank of a public officer. . . . The respondent was a model husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company of disreputable characters known as 'Republicans'; he came home in bad moods and would banefully mutter, 'Raskobite' at your complainant...
...thesis that this simple expedient would bolster the price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish new all-time records for cheapness. Although the tapping restriction had not really had time to be effective, rubber merchants considered last week's market proof of its failure. Ominously, stocks of rubber on hand in London mounted...