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...Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that more than 200 horses had been drugged on U. S. tracks this year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti...
Along with the development of Oak Ridge station and the increased collection of plates, a collection numbering five hundred thousand, it became imperative to construct a fire-proof building for their storage. In 1931 the erection of the Astrophotographic Building of the Harvard Observatory began. It was dedicated in the spring...
Germany promptly denied it. Then the Dernieres Nouvelles of Strasbourg brought a report from Riga that the plane had been shot down by machine guns. Finally the London Daily Herald's Kovno correspondent boldly stated that the Lithuanian Government was convinced, was awaiting only final proof before demanding apology and indemnity from Germany. His story: When the Lithuanica flew through the darkness over a concentration camp near Soldin, searchlights were turned on the machine. Believing it to be a Communist airplane which they suspected of an attempt to rescue some prisoners, the guards cut loose with machine guns, brought...
...knew you at a glance. You're a Jesuit. Get out, you scoundrel, before I do you an injury. Report to those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting a wife of slowly poisoning her husband but having no proof, Sutherland told her that her husband's food was not agreeing with him. He thinks she took the hint. (Author Hugh Walpole has this story in his last book, All Souls' Night...
...solid Dry South by going 3-to-2 for Repeal. A sour political note was struck by Judge Oliver Day Street, Alabama's Republican national committeeman. who told his slim following: "If Repeal is a Democratic measure and if President Roosevelt desires it, this should be sufficient proof that it is no Republican measure and no Republican has any business voting...