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...been uncovered for them. Citizens were being swindled out of at least $1,500,000 a year by "ministers" who had obtained their credentials by mail. Apparently anyone could purchase documents which, so far as the letter of the law was concerned, empowered him to set up a church, perform marriages, officiate at funerals, collect fees from his followers...
There it was learned that, since he is on his way to New York to perform in Major Bowes' amateur program, he wished to contact the Roosevelt boys in an effort to persuade the First Lady of the Land to cast her vote for him. His chief proficiency in the field of amateur entertainment lies in the fastest known rendition of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," played upon a one-stringed violin...
...donor's age is apparently irrelevant. An old person's cornea may be successfully transplanted to a young one. The patient's age however might at times make some difference. Thus it is difficult to perform the transplantation in children up to the age of eight or nine years, for it is difficult to take care of them. Blood groups apparently are not of essential significance for the success of the operation...
...Secretary and a Treasurer, all of whom shall be Seniors. The President shall preside at all meetings, and shall have the power to cast a vote only in the case of a tie. The Treasurer shall, in the absence of the President, assume all his powers. The Secretary shall perform all the duties regularly pertaining to that office...
Thereupon Dr. Pincus proceeded to perform other genetic tricks which, when he reported them to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Washington last week, stirred the Press to front-page speculation as to the imminence of immaculate conceptions and substitute motherhood in humans...