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...reporter of the lone Washington paper* which carried this story made it up out of whole cloth. My adjusted service certificate was correctly made out and acknowledged from Iowa a year ago. There was no misspelling. No complaint was made to the Adjutant General. No employe of the Department was demoted as a result of any such error...
...pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...
...significance. Since the conclusion of the famous Dayton episode, and the death of William Jennings Bryan, the fundamentalists have been unwontedly quiet. But signs are not lacking which indicate that this silence is by no means permanent. If Texas can produce another Scopes, and the nation another Bryan, the Lone Star State may well be the next battleground in a war which, it is not impossible, will be fought up and down the country. in politics and out, before it is concluded...
...funeral march as the Abbey was reached. The coffin was again borne on the gun carriage, draped with the Queen Mother's royal standard. But this time detachments of the Royal Air Force, the Life Guards, the Horse Guards and the Royal Marines took the place of the lone cavalry officer of the. day before...
Last week a twinkling-eyed, eccentric little man arrived at Paris and was greeted by a sprinkling of Russian Communists, a lone detective and an official of the French Foreign Office. Long after his train drew in, the little man remained seated in his compartment. When the crowd of travelers had quite cleared away, he stepped nimbly forth and was whirled away to a secret conference with M. Herriot and M. Briand, who were engaged at the moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright...