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...Idaho, President Coolidge let it be known that he thought Idaho too far west. This limits his field. He is not going to pitch a tent in the middle of an Iowa cornfield; nor is he likely to choose a Rocky Mountain playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will...
Seventeen men sat in a big room arguing. In their hands lay the conduct of all the people living in an area equal to the British Isles and almost as large as Italy. Nine of the 17 voted one way, then one switched, and the vote stood reversed. Then one vote switched again and again the say-so of nine individuals laid a prohibition upon a whole population...
Uldine Utley, 15, Fundamentalist, last week was imparting her wisdom to newsgatherers, following her arrival in Chicago, to which fertile area she had gone for the purpose of redeeming the sinners. The girl had just come from Norfolk, Va., where numberless adults had suddenly espoused religion under her auspices. She has been conducting revival meetings throughout the U. S. following the startling endorsement of her methods by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N. Y., who as President of the Federal Council of Churches carries weight as a Protestant spokesman. Dr. Cadman's endorsement made many wonder whether...
...time when the first of China's treaties with foreign powers was made, in 1842," continued Professor Hornbeck, "the Chinese city of Shanghai was a walled city of some 500,000 inhabitants. After the port was 'opened' by a treaty with the British, the Chinese officials set aside an area outside the city where it was agreed the British should live and carry on their business; also an area for the French, and an area for the Americans. The foreigners developed these areas, turned empty, swampy mud flats into a great modern city. The Americans and British combined their areas...
...young continents earthquakes come relatively more often than hic-coughs to children. Therefore, last week, Japanese seismologists prowled about the recent earthquake area (TIME, March 14) with the optimistic smiles of family doctors. They know that the Japanese Islands are still rising from the sea, like so many teeth pushing up through infant gums...