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Since mechanically-minded Europeans go in much more heavily for theory and mathematics than mechanically-minded Americans, the Exposition's huge Palace of Discovery is full of French professors who have sacrificed their summer holidays to stand behind scientific apparatus of all sorts. They perform elaborately delicate experiments, eagerly dispute with an amazing number of shabbily dressed persons from all parts of Europe who have managed to get to Paris for this high-powered intellectual carnival. Among French scientists who have collaborated to make and staff the Palace of Discovery is Mine Curie-Joliot, eminent chemist daughter...
...employes." But a new wrinkle in unfair labor practice was contained in the complaint that the company was luring good unionists away from union meetings with a kind of entertainment the union could not offer. The coal company, charged the United Miners, "did procure lewd and immoral women to perform free, indecent exhibitions known as strip-&-tease dances, and to otherwise engage in gratuitous, licentious conduct at times when union meetings were scheduled for the purpose of enticing its employes from attending such meetings...
...civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes to a secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner, perform a marriage for an eager friend, rush off to inspect a swimming pool, a hospital, a ferryboat or a street accident...
...trained under Aimee Semple McPherson, runs Trinity Tabernacle, speaks over the radio, publishes a weekly paper for his devoted flock. As head of Trinity Tabernacle Corp. he is entitled under an Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering in the background gave the new divine's nose...
...That far from being heedless, he had determined that the time had come to split his party, to purge it deliberately of its conservative elements, so that henceforward the New Dealers could close their ranks and perform their evolutions unimpeded by the presence of old-fashioned Democrats...