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Publicity is so precious to Congressman Church that he will talk for half-an-hour to any reporter rash enough to telephone him. He also disseminates to his constituents a leaflet called This Week in Washington, by Ralph E. Church. Last week, encouraged by success, Representative Church climaxed his public career. On Thanksgiving Eve, when the Senate had already sensibly adjourned, Sam Rayburn proposed that the House adjourn until two days later. Instantly, Illinois' Church, still insistent that the House keep its nose to the grindstone, was on his feet to ask whether it was true that there would...
Other recent acquisitions are the Peiping Chien Pu, a collection of Oriental writing paper decorated with beautifully colored prints, and the fireproofed rare-book room which now safeguards the precious Buddhist Sutra (Bible...
...extraterritorial rights of Germans in China. Therefore, perspired Colonel Ott, the Nazis today dare not antagonize the Chinese who could turn around and crack down in their native courts upon Germans any day-whereas U. S., British, French and Japanese citizens in China still are protected by their precious "extraterritorial rights...
...bartering purposes with the otherwise well-supplied neighboring British Embassy. Cannaday's measure No. 2 was the purchase of ninety skins of olive oil from a man who feared confiscation by Spain's collectivist-bent Anarchists. Cannaday knew the promise of a few litres of this precious fluid would get action when money, pleading, pressure failed...
...Perhaps we foresee a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, will rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing will be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless-all will be lost or wrecked, or utterly destroyed." Having gone so far he promptly went further...