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...Hards the jitters. True, so great an authority as Lord Halifax has observed: "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed," but they necessarily will be formed and their members will be Indians. The new Constitution also calls for provincial legislatures chosen by 14% of the adult population of British India. All such details of accouchement can be arranged in homely midwife fashion by the Director of the Bank of Scotland...
...Department of Justice's fine new building on Constitution Avenue went 21 handpicked, high-ranking law officers from rural, metropolitan and State police services. With the exception of instruction in matters strictly Federal, these 21 adult students were to receive free of charge the same three-months course given novice Special Agents. In addition, there were to be special lectures on ballistics, first aid, criminal procedure, psychiatry, by such national figures as Major Julian S. Hatcher of the Army's Ordnance Department, Assistant Surgeon General Ralph C. Williams of the Public Health Service, onetime U. S. District Attorney George...
...McCormick bought nine Flemish Giant hares, had two senior medical students from the University of Toronto poison them with nicotine. The nicotine dissolved out of a single cigaret soaked in water is enough to make a grown man deathly sick. The solution of three cigarets will throw an adult into such convulsions that he will probably die within 15 minutes. Eight of Dr. McCormick's hares died of nicotine poisoning in due course...
Expositor & Homiletic Review: "The Church has hurt the income of the motion picture barons. . . . Retaliation is only to be expected. . . . Take a special offering, enlist your adult and junior organizations...
Best known private forecasters are the five who published their reports last week. Though the public seldom hears of them, they have spent most of their adult lives guessing the size of each year's wheat, corn, rye and other crops. They...