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...throughout the land. To many it seemed to be a distinct tide change. How high it would flow and what channels it would alter no man knew. Wet militancy increased. Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted...
...fish first appeared in hatchery nets twelve years ago, a chunky, gold-gleaming adult of 12 lb.† Hatchery men noticed a peculiar shining spot in front of her dorsal fin, named her Silverspot. Every year for ten years she was caught in Minnesota Lake waters, taken to the hatchery, stripped of her eggs and released. At one stripping she gave some 300,000 eggs...
...last season's Apron Strings. Up Pops The Devil affords him another chance to play the part of a puzzled, naive young man, establishing him as a first rate juvenile. Sally Bates, who has had dealings with the Theatre Guild, carries off the honors for gracious and adult acting...
This is by no means the first time that Mr. Marchand has come forward with his notion of "adult re-education." The Marchand idea is that 10,000,000 people are "out of date," that until they are inculcated with brighter business ideas unemployment is inevitable. Since 1919 he has brought this belief before 250,000 clients of the National University Society...
Fifth largest religious group in the U. S. are the Negro Baptists. Four years ago their adult membership was 2,914,482.* Largest Protestant church in the world is Chicago's Olivet Baptist church, membership 12,000. Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival...