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...uninstructed, Mr. Pinchot countered with another blow aimed at the Administration's enforcement of the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 29). The Governor wrote to the Secretary asking: "Will you let my state officers go into plants operating under Federal permits? Will you revoke such permits where my officers present proof of violations? " And the Governor added: " As Governor of this Commonwealth, in honor bound to use every power I have for the welfare of its people, I cannot remain silent if the Federal Government, under whose present activities these conditions have arisen, is merely to continue doing...
...appalling picture of commonwealths flouted by the friends of liquor, the Federal Constitution flagrantly violated and our national flag daily defied, which we see on every hand, does not mean that the patriotic friends of sobriety cannot ultimately win. ... I propose a rum-proof, booze-tight, clean-up program...
Referring to a passage in Colonel Dupont's speech in which he declared he had proof that Germany possessed hoarded resources hidden away from the French, Mr. George said...
...skull of a creodont, the largest known primitive carnivorous animal, measuring 33x21 inches; teeth and jaws of coryphodon, lophidon and other large carnivorae; several skulls of the rhinoceros-like titanotheres; some complete skeletons of dinosaurs of the inguanodon type. The discovery of several fossil dinosaur eggs gives definite proof that the prehistoric reptiles were hatched from eggs. As eggs contain over 90% water, they are rarely fossilized. The deposits were distributed through the Mesozoic and early Tertiary eras, roughly 5,000,000 to 15,000,000 years...
...Russell Lowell, Emerson, and the late Colonel Higginson, should prove a sufficient guarantee of interest to those who know him; and a charming introduction for those who do not. While the article which opens the volume, an entirely human consideration of Erasmus' "Praise of Folly", is so admirable a proof that the Renaissance sage is by no means dead and gone, and so skillful an application of his wisdom to modern American colleges, that criticism balks at it. It is, as has been said of many another masterpiece, a setting forth of thoughts that everyone has felt...