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...offer many a farmer in the southwest relaxation after a hard day in the fields. Daily thousands listen to Dr. John Richard Brinkley, goat gland rejuvenation exponent, diagnose and prescribe for letter-writing patients over the radio. Occasionally static interferes, wags say, and causes the sick to get the wrong code number for their prescriptions, to treat themselves for dandruff when they are suffering from torpid liver...
...greatly prospered, speedily progressed, now makes all the Ford tractors that are made, has just harnessed the River Shannon by a mighty hydroelectric network (TIME, Aug. 5). With no War debt, with a strong, exuberant old people who feel they have made a new start, there is nothing wrong with the Irish Free State, except that.it is not Irish, nor free, nor a state, but has the status of a dominion under George V's Crown...
...wouldn't take it as a gift. My policy is to take a plant and make it grow." Then, in a torrent of emotion, Orator Schwab told of his long friendship with Mr. Campbell, ended up with a plea: ''Jim Campbell, right or wrong, follow him." To Chairman Schwab, President Grace is the perfect complement. Cool, logical, incisive. Mr. Grace quoted figures to show Bethlehem spends money on its plants, increases its payrolls. ''The strength of Bethlehem."' he said, "lies in the strength of local institutions. We create local institutions. We do not centralize...
...more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives at the wrong house for dinner and is mistaken for a hired guest whom the hostess has ordered from an agency. The dialog is witty, and Barrymore, hiccupping slightly, plays through one lunatic scene after another with a charmingly satirical manner. He used to play in things like this long ago, at the beginning...
...next few decades will be so overwhelmingly great that these countries offer the most attractive field for investment. There is room for immense expansion and the desire for it. Wealth is the main objective, the pace will be hot, and the profit high. ¶ I think it is quite wrong to believe that the currency chaos of the last ten years will now be replaced by a long period of calm stability similar to that of the 19th Century. ... On the basis of this view I would invest a large part of any fund in the strongest currency...