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...proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits. Then it appears that Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie Bly.* Frankie learns where an assignation is being kept by Johnnie and Nellie. Three times she shoots him ("roota-toot-toot") because she feels "he done her wrong." The ballad can be sung in about 20 minutes. It would be less tedious if Mr. Kirkland's play took no longer to unfold. Frankie is Anne Forrest; Johnnie is Frank McGlynn...
...which in turn were responsible for the great downward period of the long business wave he said, "Bad financial conditions in Europe created an unsteadiness in America, this waver in business was further increased by over speculation in stocks, and the whole thing was given another thrust in the wrong direction by the agricultural crises. We can further add a number of special causes, the over-production of mootr cars, for example. Again, there are various things that only show themselves during a crisis, all the result of a general lack of public buying power...
...height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false teeth ... tip of right index finger somewhat mutilated." Few days later Mrs. Crater received a letter: "Your husband is alive and safe. . . . We believe there is something wrong with his head. ... I beg to inform you that unless $20,000 in bills of small denominations is delivered to us per instructions you will see him again only as a badly broken man, both physically and mentally...
...ideas. A large part of his work is above politics. . . . The immediate aim is to free society of its major ills so that life on this earth may be made happier by the mitigation of fear. Often the means proposed for accomplishing the end prove by experience to be wrong. But out of the mass of these endeavors will be gradually built a new and a better world...
Puzzle for Hoover. Up to now President Hoover has upheld the principle (laid down by President Wilson) that it is wrong to recognize a revolutionary regime (such as Russia's) and last week the President was believed to be adjusting himself to circumstances: Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina have all set up "revolutionary governments" since June, and potent U. S. commercial interests clamor for their recognition...