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...Odds. Wall Street began laying bets on the Republican nomination. Last week's odds against: Hoover, 8 to 5; Lowden, 5 to 2; Dawes, 5 to 2; Butler, 7 to 1; Willis, 10 to 1; Longworth, 10 to 1. Against Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith's election, odds were quoted...
...EIGHT YEARS OF WALL STREET- GIVE MAIN STREET A CHANCE!"- Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard, Chestertown, Md. ¶ "TARIFF RELIEF MEANS FARM RELIEF!" F. N. Martin, Newberry, S. C. ¶ "BY THEIR LOOTS YE SHALL KNOW...
...Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty terrible-if true. Upton Sinclair has long enjoyed...
...pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...
...domination of industrial and economic considerations over purely political movements in Europe, declares that the age of politics has passed, and taken with it the demagogue. Certainly in this country the laborers riding in cars produced by the most pronounced capitalism are too prosperous to cry out against Wall Street. The words Republican or Democrat are no longer clannish distinctions because the differences over farm relief, ship building, and the tariff, little interest the unaffected majority. Politics has yielded place as the prime subject for discussion. Even the irregularities of the Harding administration aroused little feeling, and few demands...