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Chorus of Dissent. Despite this historical precedent and veiled assurances that the President would flex out imperfections which even 'the Republican National Committee admitted were in the bill, a great new sector of U. S. industry called imperiously for a veto. Normal protestants against tariff upping are importers (i. e. department stores) who bear the brunt of higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production...
...must wait for the restoration of normal conditions," said Captain Benn squaring his jaw. He also asked for an appropriation of $650,000 for the India office...
...enough to feel but not understand what it meant when his parson father was ostracized and persecuted because he was against the War, when his soldier brother, not much older than Tony, shot himself in France because he acquired a venereal disease. Tony grew up outwardly normal, attractive, good at games, mildly social; inwardly he was stunted, emotionally infantile. Post-War girls find him tantalizing, do their best to seduce him, succeed only in making him withdraw further into his shell. One day Tony encounters an old-fashioned girl who is contemplating suicide for the old-fashioned reason that...
...from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should be declared. Because the men had been away for six months, and because the ladies of Greece had normal womanly appetites, Miss Bainter had to use a great deal of oratorical persuasion. Finally the women agreed-with reservations. Kalonika-played by winsome Miriam Hopkins in a most demurely diaphanous costume- thought she could resist for two nights, Myrrhina (Hortense Alden) for one. It was easy for the women...
...solar system. It is a simple matter to note the motion of the moon and sun because they are large, travel rapidly relative to man. But the stars are so deliberate that in a planetarium the universe is speeded up as much as 4,000,000 times its normal rate to make star changes apparent. Last week Professor Philip Fox, who resigned from the staff of Northwestern Observatory to take charge of the new planetarium, stood on his platform in the darkened room manipulating levers and buttons, making his stars perform like trained seals. With a flashlight beam, he singled...