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...Barnes' life story is full of human interest. It is the story of a man who has had to fight against enormous odds. Working at Barrow he says: ". . . we worked over 32 hours per week beyond the normal week of 54 hours." He left Barrow, went to London. After a long period of alternating unemployment and work he became General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and identified with political Labor currents. As a Cabinet Minister Mr. Barnes did much work of permanent value. The part which he once played so ably for old age pensions he replayed...
...less total votes than the Second Marshal. Such a system can only lead to confusion on the part of the voters, and to the occasional election of men who are obviously not as popular as other candidates. A straight preferential system would put the election of Marshals on a normal basis and the Class could elect the men it honored most...
...burns the whole thing in a blaze of melodrama. The fire enables Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss Logan is still one of the prettiest in all the cinema seraglio...
...market as hard as to cause a skid downhill similar to that experienced last year. As long as the Federal Reserve Board consists of political appointees, it is somewhat beside the point to declare that politics has nothing to do with business tendencies. This might be so were conditions normal. But they are not normal. We are sitting on a slumbering volcano of excess gold reserves...
...years ago, E. Freund and Gisa Kaminer of Vienna published results of investigations on cancer which attracted attention throughout the scientific world. They had found that the serum of the blood of cancer patients would not dissolve cancer cells, whereas that of normal persons would. They claimed, indeed, that the cancer serum would protect cancers against the dissolving action of normal serum. Now they have announced in the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (Vienna Clinical Weekly) the results of their last ten years of work on this subject. They have found in the intestinal contents of persons with cancer a substance which...