Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capitol, Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, onetime chairman, now most potent member of the Post Office & Post Roads Committee of the Senate, doubted if Congress would approve any postal rate increase now. Said he, who used to be a publisher himself (Concord Evening Monitor): "I do not see how we can increase the first-class rates, since we made the mistake of reducing them after the War." The Senator objected to the fact that religious, fraternal and scientific periodicals-some 6,000 of them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial...
Like everyone else. Senator Moses recognized that the congressional franking privilege and the "penalty" mail of the U. S. departments inflates the deficit. His remedy: "Congress and the departments ought to have special stamps which they would pay for the same as others. The stamps used by members of Congress would be charged up to the expenses of the legislative branch and the executive stamps would be paid for out of appropriations for the respective executive departments...
...Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
Experimental Thanatology. A few physiologists are studying the causes of death and ways of retarding them. Most noted is Russia's Alexei Kuliabko. Noted too is France's Eusebio Adolfo Hernandez, who urged the Congress to organize an international organization for Experimental Thanatology...
Pavlov. Leningrad's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was the most revered man at the Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition...