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What prompted this onslaught upon the Supreme Court was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, before the Senate for confirmation. Because his appointment was discussed under the Senate's new open-session rules, all the world could follow the bitter ebb and flow of debate which a year ago would have been secret. Likewise thrown aside was the taboo that the Supreme Court is sacrosanct and thus above criticism...
...appreciated that all his audience knew what chiropractic is?"a system of adjustment consisting of palpitation of the spinal column to ascertain vertebral subluxations, followed by the adjustment of them by hand, in order to relieve pressure upon nerves at the intervertebra1. foramina so that nerve force may flow freely from the brain to the rest of the body"?more simply, manipulating the spinal column to relieve pressure on the nerves which pass through...
...Siemens, both because German General Electric is his greatest rival and because it has violated his nationalistic feelings by allowing Americans from General Electric to sit upon its board. Yet last week Herr von Siemens apparently neared a truce with German General Electric, allowed U. S. capital to flow into his own company. The truce was taken for granted because of a new $32,000,000 issue of Siemens debentures to be sold in the U. S. It was rumored that about 80% would be bought by General Electric. While these debentures have no voting power and this technically keeps...
...cable room were expert telegraphers. Code clerks filled the code room from which all snoopers were shooed away. Tall, curly-haired Pierre De Lagorde Boal of Boalsburg, Pa., chief of the department's conference secretariat, sat in his office like a traffic officer directing the two-way flow of messages. In the office labeled "Division of Current Information" waited Robert McGregor Scotten beside his well-oiled mimeograph, primed to reel out press releases from London...
...proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad. Merchants there knew that they owed their prosperity to the singer Sadko, often told their children how he had made the River Volkhov to flow, thus opening their city to the sea. The legendary Sadko appealed to famed Russian Composer Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov, who wrote an opera about him in which is included "The Song of India." In its proper setting, in the opera Sadko, it was heard for the first time...