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...exist, said the sardonic Voltaire, it would be necessary to invent one. With a rare burst of creative imagination, a God has been invented for the first play of the Theatre Guild's 14th season. Author of He is Alfred Savoir. He himself exists in the attractive mortal envelope of Tom Powers, not to be confused with Eugene Powers who is also among the comedy's cast as a learned professor...
...graft and little graft run through the entire commercial structure. In Graft in Business, published last week by Vanguard Press ($3), Author Flynn goes into the matter. Part of the book deals with petty graft by corporation officials, tells of no practices one does not know or suspect to exist. Typical example : a Victor Talking Machine Co. superintendent who changed glue brands when offered a 5% commission...
...There exist several sorts of Mexican Ku Klux Klans. One of them is the Comite Nacionalista Anti-China de la Costa Occidental, known as the Anti-Chinese Society. This society resorted to an old law passed by the Sonora Legislature in 1919, providing that all industrial and mercantile establishments must employ 80% Mexicans. In March 1931 this law was amended to prevent the exclusion of naturalized Chinese clerks anxious to evade the law, but despite its severity no serious attempt was made to enforce it until last June...
...climate, which makes the venom of some kinds of snakes more poisonous than the venom of the same kind of snakes in another locality. Stopping over at Havana he learned from one of his young animal gatherers that a few solenodons (molelike animals the size of small opossums) still exist along Cuba's southern shore. Mammalogists have feared the solenodon extinct...
...addendum to the committee's petition Inquisitor Seabury expressed publicly for the first time just what he thought the investigation was heading into: "Corruption in the government of New York City is widespread. . . . This corruption could not exist on so large a scale if the sinister forces who are profiting by it were not afforded protection. Their identity must be established if this system is to be broken down. . . The committee has been met with every obstruction which it has been possible for the beneficiaries of this vicious system to throw...