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Awarded. To tenor John McCormack; the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame University's annual award to a Catholic layman. To Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, 30, of the University of California: the Langmuir $1,000 award for promising young chemists; for discerning the arrangement and behavior of atoms in solids...
House moratorium was declared on place-seeking. While it lasted, Democratic Senators and Representatives had to be on their best behavior-and in the name of emergency the President could continue this moratorium until he got all he wanted from Congress...
...Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...
...During the sensational week they had all been closed by his decree, the President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple word and confident voice, not to repeat their own extraordinary behavior of the week prior when all at once they attempted to convert their bank deposits into currency, precipitating crisis...
...serious that the most opinionated Senators and Representatives submerged their convictions in worried silence and took orders from the White House. Other Congresses had gabbled away opportunities to rescue the country but the 73rd, with a record to make, gave a legislative performance which for dispatch, efficiency and good behavior during the first week's session, placed it high in public esteem...