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...evening of Aug. 31 anthracite mining adjourned sine die. The adjournment was complete. About 155,000 miners left the mines?not technically "striking," but " suspending operations "because a new wage contract had not been executed. In the hurried days immediately before, the function of peacemaker between miners and operators?given up as hopeless by the Coal Commision?descended upon Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. He had desired it so. But he did not succeed in preventing the strike...
...appointed chairman of the committee which was to have conducted the Harding inaugural ball. The ball was soon dropped, ostensibly for reasons of economy, but there is widespread belief that the choice of the chairman to guide it also had much to do with the abandonment of this function. Mr. McLean, despite his great wealth, is not and never will be popular in Washington, which cannot get over its wonder that any President could be on terms of intimacy with him. . . . Just as the Cincinnati Enquirer owes nothing to Edward B. McLean for its long-established influence and reputation...
...Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, he is not well known to the public, having been fully occupied with his military vocation since he entered Sandhurst, England's principal military academy. Only on rare occasions during the past few years has he attended any public function in an official capacity...
...separation of sexual love from the reproductive function will eliminate old-fashioned family life...
...Steinach's operation, no new material is transplanted. He discovered that if the reproductive function of the gonads is stopped by removing part of their duct (called the "vas deferens"), or even by tying it off, the reproductive cells atrophy and the interstitial cells multiply and occupy the space, greatly increasing the flow of the hormones. The effect is to turn the gonad into an exclusively ductless gland. The same general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility...