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TIME gladly prints the photograph of Victoria, 12, and Mary Belle Spencer Jr., 14, unrepressed daughters of the crusading Chicago attorney who had Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. According to their mother, Daughters Victoria and Mary Belle have never been to school, yet know everything. Once they threw their Christmas tree out the window...
Everyone is waiting for some definite reassurance from the President which has not been forthcoming. The resignation of General Johnson and the growing importance of Richberg in the NRA has aroused more intensely vague fears which many have held during the last month or two that Mr. Roosevelt threw no oil on the troubled waters. He showed a distinct inclination, however, to pass off most of this criticism as vague rumor which no one should believe. He did say that it was valuable for the people of the country to think but he did not assuage their suspicious...
Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
...other case was a farmer with a $3,000 mortgage who had been able to pay interest on the dot but nothing on principal for three years. The bank examiner likewise threw it out. The President declared that he himself could sell the farm for $6,000, perhaps $8,000 if he had a couple of months' time...
...Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...