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...forced to accept this girl before they are satisfied that she is theirs, beau- tiful as the baby may be and as much as in time they may come to love her, the baby's life will be damned by an eternal doubt. Hospital officials must come clean in this matter, even if a mistake has been made...
Resignation? A new sponge must always be soaked before using or its fibres may scratch the hand that uses it and the surface it is intended to clean. The question last week in Washington was: did Secretary Mellon put such a thorough damper on Assistant Secretary Lowman that the latter might soon resign...
...result has been to how that the "Mexican people are indifferent to the suppression of the cults" and roundly charging the Roman Catholic clergy with rebellious conduct. He noted, too, that several foreigners, among them two "North Americans" (meaning U. S. citizens), had been expelled in "an effort to clean up the morals of the nation." Referring to education, he stated that "92% of the population to be educated is receiving instruction in well-equipped, modern edifices...
...Scoutmaster Jerzy Jelinski and Scout Henry Smosarski-are in no such hurry. They may take as long as the late Senor Magellan, for they are spreading good will among the Boy Scouts of the world. Fifteen months ago, they left Warsaw in a white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight ago. Heading west, they were cheered by U. S. Boy Scouts as supreme symbols of the motto: "Be Prepared." Not only have they earned...
Execution. Guilty or not, justly or not, Nicola Sacco, clean-shaven factory worker and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, mustachioed fish-peddler, were informed last Monday evening that they must die that midnight for the murders- which to the end they denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass., in 1920. Celestino Madeiros, confessed murderer of a bank cashier in Wrentham, Mass., was notified to the same effect. Prisoner Madeiros, in a stupor from overeating at his last meal, preceded his world-famed neighbors to the electric chair...