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Significance. The House showed a strong and unprecedented inclination to resist the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League on prohibition legislation. Beneath the parliamentary complications of the issue and the veneer of fiscal concern about the Budget system seemed to lie a tendency, even among ardent drys, to follow the commands of the new Administration and pursue moderate, middle-of-the-road enforcement?in other words, to continue the farce with politic solemnity and let Mr. Hoover proceed "constructively" with the "experiment . . . noble in motive...
...members of the British House of Commons made an astounding insinuation last week-that the private Belgian concern, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar...
Consider, for example, a scene which last week took place in the offices of a concern called Standard Diamond Co., Manhattan. President of the company is one Peter B. Johnston. Manager of the company is one George E. Stillings. On the president's desk is a large brass nameplate: "P. B. Johnston...
...recent votes of the Faculty concern credit for courses taken at other institutions, credit for extension courses, and the admission of part time students to courses they wish to take as auditors. These changes are made to fit the needs of the students who are unable to take two full and continuous years of work at the school. A student who spends one full, continuous year in residence at the school may receive credit at the discretion of the Administrative Board for eight half courses of work done at another institution...
...Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such she is, glows in all the golden vitality appropriate to a Viking female, and her man is a pagan philanderer; in The Master Ingunn, the heroine- by-courtesy...