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...Knock Outs. The National Economy League's principal attack is upon the payment of allowances to veterans not disabled in service. The Spanish War lasted 114 days and out of 300,000 men under arms, 5.547 lost their lives. In 1915. 28,912 veterans of that war were drawing $3,851,699 for real hurts. In 1920 the bars were dropped: any veteran disabled in any way or over 62, was eligible for a pension. Today Spanish War pensioners total 235,463. N. E. L. would lop $109.000,000 from the Government's bill by limiting payment to those disabled...
...would also knock out the $104,000,000 now being paid to veterans who came through the World War unscathed. In that conflict 234,879 U. S. soldiers were gassed or wounded, yet 331,693 are now drawing pay for war hurts. This occurs because Congress has given them un scientific presumptions that their disabilities are service-connected. By putting compensation back on a war basis, N. E. L. would save another $125,000,000. It would limit free hospitalization to veterans who could boast of real war hurts, halve ad ministrative costs by clearing the bounty rolls, weed...
...break. What do you say? [A minor murmur of dissent.] Then you bums can walk and I'll see you get a damned good start. I won't call in any troopers to massacre you. I'll put you to hell out myself. . . . I'll knock the teeth out of anybody who hangs around here...
Observers last week were already writing Dr. Millikan's answer for him. In his laboratory Millikan had seen cosmic rays penetrate 50 ft. of lead, knock electrons out of atmosphere atoms. Such electrons, Dr. Millikan might say, would naturally spiral toward the poles, knocked out of Earth-atmosphere atoms by cosmic rays still unexplained by Dr. Compton...
...sanatorium in which 12-year-old Halcyon can recover from her fantastic poethood, Capt. Day chooses his sister Madge's strictly common-or-garden English home. Here everybody tries to help her "find her own level," "cut her corners off" by making her "knock about" with other children. But Halcyon refuses to be either comforted or tamed. Her sophistication is more than a pose. Her tweedy, game-crazy playmates she finds hopelessly dull. Then suddenly, while moping one day in the ruins of Beaulieu Abbey, she meets Eden Herring...