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...created a condition endangering the respect for law and the security of American institutions, therefore be it "Resolved, That the American Legion in this 13th annual convention assembled favors the submission by Congress of the repeal or modification of the present Prohibition laws to the several States with a request that each State submit this question to the voters thereof...
...that means, but thousands of Indian Nationalists have rid themselves of the fear of Death." Chaplin & Gandhi. Fortunately no test of strength between India and Britain was possible last week. Talk was all anyone could do, and Mahatma Gandhi even talked to Charlie Chaplin-at the cinemactor's request. When told by his Indian friend Mrs. Sarojini Naidu that "the famous Mr. Chaplin wants to see you," St. Gandhi seemed puzzled, asked: "What is he famous for? Who is this Mr. Chaplin?" Sensitive Cinemactor Chaplin had been stopping the week-end with pugnacious Winston Churchill, M. P., public...
...everlasting wars, he goes to the world's daintiest First Lady, to girlish Mei-ling (née Soong*). who went to Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small, closely guarded red brick and grey cement house at Nanking, her husband's capital...
Nearly one thousand men yesterday became Harvard men. Some came laughing, some merely smiling, some pushing; some their mothers pulled. However they came, they are here. They would request passersby with a native air to direct them to "Memorial Hall;" then later would ask chance acquaintances, fellow freshmen, if they had been to "Mem." As easily as that can the greater part of the transition from preparatory school boy to college man be made...
...interest story. He ordered United Press men to hunt for a supply of cortical extract among the physicians of their community. Roscoe Snipes, U. P. bureau manager at Buffalo, recalled Professor Hartman's paper before the chemists, persuaded him through a reporter?after Dr. Torpin had sent a personal request from Chicago?to send a supply...