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...Paulsboro, N. J., John Williams, town dogcatcher, resigned for the third time. He had been making as much as $36 per day: $2 for each unlicensed dog he put to death. As proof of each dog caught, John Williams furnished one detached dog-ear. Reason he resigned: the Mayor & Councilmen decided that hereafter a dogtail...
...would appreciate your telling me where I can secure a pamphlet, treatise or book on Dr. Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. I am not interested so much in the proof submitted to substantiate the theory as I am in discussion of what the theory is. I am not particularly interested in holding a girl on my lap for an hour or sitting on a hot stove for one minute...
...from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another U. S. citizen, pounced simultaneously on a Priestley error of fact. He had said that Americans buy but do not read books, cited as proof the fact that an English friend had found Sinclair Lewis novels in homes throughout the U. S. "uncut." As Americans know, all trade editions of Mr. Lewis' novels, and nearly all U. S. novels, are machine cut, defy detection as to whether they have been read...
Attempts last week to interpellate Prime Minister Laval's Government about the loan brought a smash vote. By an overwhelming majority of 555 to 11 the Government's action in furthering the loan was barred from debate. Never was there better proof of the power of wealth...
...minority interest in Metal Box & Printing Industries, Ltd., biggest in Britain. Last week Continental Can again expanded abroad, bought control of Compagnie Franco-Continentale de Boites Metalliques, one of the leading can companies in France. Shareholders in both the big can companies last week were pleased at the depression-proof manner in which their earnings held...