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...about the effect of the Talmadge "secession" the Georgia on New Deal power in the South, the major-demo of the Roosevelt forces declared: "It won't change our scheme at all; if Talmadge wants to enter the race, that's all right with me, but it won't affect our policy...
...hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages and scares also affect the growth of hair by exhausting the adrenals. High fevers have a like effect...
...down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect our international relations." Mr. Rice's disenchantment was complete. Crying that "freedom of expression" had been "stifled," he turned in his resignation...
...reported that a Liberal Member of the English Parliament will suggest to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin next week the plan of placing British naval bases at the disposal of American warships; a proposal which, if carried out, will deeply affect the present position of the United States at the Naval Conference. The American fleet, especially in the Pacific, has to contend with the important problem of few bases at great distances from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing...
...organization long a credit to the College and standards of serious drama. It is believed that the reorganization now taking place will remove a respected institution from the realms of official disfavour, and it is to be hoped that the exposure of a black eye already cured will not affect the prestige of the Club among its followers...