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...obeying the Constitution by passing the Reapportionment bill. The measure, designed to produce a more equitable representation of the People, for a time was burdened with two amendments which would have excluded 15 million U. S. inhabitants from any representation whatsoever. This peculiar perversion of the bill's intent resulted from sectional prejudices and was accomplished by misinterpreting representation according to population as representation according to citizenship...
...readiness for the grand three-day second funeral of China's first president, Dr. Sun. To build this impressive approach, eight contractors were allotted mile sec tions each. Soldiers were put to work as laborers. The eight contractors ruthlessly tore down peasants' houses, appropriated land. Intent on honoring simple democratic Dr. Sun, they paid little attention to each other. When the eight single miles of road were finished they failed to connect, some sections by as much as ten feet. Despite the fact that 108 of the Chinese peasants that Sun Yat-sen had lived for committed suicide...
...Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...
...inquisitive eye moving to the right, comes to rest upon a large man in the last high-backed chair. Attention is fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...
Probably not even Chancellor Churchill, hunched over and intent upon the pixie, realized where all this was leading. Rather perfunctorily he interjected that his settlements had been based upon the Balfour Note...