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...with Chairman O'Connor, continued talking of "an adjustment, rather than a sale" of the lines. Mr. Chapman wanted to be relieved of the expensive duty of operating the largest U. S. steamship, S. S. Leviathan, which is also his largest money loser. He wanted also to be rid of the George Washington, next most costly steamer of his fleet. The Government could then sell the Republic, he suggested, leaving him the America, President Roosevelt, President Harding, and the five ships of the American Merchant Line. Last week U. S. Lines still owed the Government $11,250,000 representing...
Equally convinced was the State public that pasty-faced Jack ("Legs") Diamond, on trial at Troy, was guilty of torturing Farmer Grover Parks because of an applejack-whiskey war. Carefully Attorney General John James Bennett Jr., specially ordered by Governor Roosevelt to rid the Catskills of gangsters (TIME, May 11), had prepared evidence that Diamond himself strung the farmer up himself lit matches and held them under the farmer's wriggling feet, himself set fire to Parks's old-fashioned underdrawers. Three State witnesses placed Diamond near the scene of the crime around the time it happened. Five...
First he pictures the living cell (normal or cancerous) and its system: 1) nucleus, 2) protoplasm, 3) semipermeable cell membrane, 4) environment (blood and tissue juices). From its environment the cell gets its energy-producing materials. Through its environment it gets rid of its wastes. Glycogen, or animal sugar, is almost the sole source of cell energy. In normal cells half the absorbed glycogen is oxidized, half turned to lactic acid. In cancerous cells, for every 13 glycogen molecules, twelve split up into lactic acid and one is oxidized...
Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
Harvard Yard officers called the Animal Rescue League to rid them of the disturbing influence. Tree-Climbing experts arrived shortly and finally succeeded in climbing to a point where they were able to lasso the unfortunate raccoon, which was promptly carried off to the quarters of the Rescue League...