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...Stenio Vincent went to the U. S. to lobby for withdrawal of the Marines. He got nowhere and drifted back to Haiti. By 1930 he had convinced a majority of the people that he could get rid of the Marines, and so they elected him President. Three years later Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated his Good Neighbor Policy: the next year Stenio Vincent went to see him and President Roosevelt withdrew the Marines. In his campaign Stenio Vincent had also plumped for a single five-year Presidential term, but when 1935 rolled around he changed his mind, ordered a plebiscite...
...Heaven) is something of a Professional American. It shows in his tendency to machine-gun a page with overlabored dialect, and to indulge a special fondness for plants, farming terms and place names. It is an unlucky affectation for a young writer. But even if he never gets rid of it, Jesse Stuart has body and vigor enough to carry...
...college teachers, were accused by the Committee of opposing democracy in education. The real reason for the action that was taken, however, seems to be that the conservative leaders of the Federation, almost ousted from power after a bitter battle over policy last summer, are trying to get rid of all the opposition radical elements in the Federation. New York has always been the center of the leftish side of the Federation...
Section 11 states that holding companies shall limit their operations to "a single integrated public-utility system." What this means to U. G. I., according to the SEC blueprint, is that it may keep the electric properties of its Pennsylvania-Delaware-Maryland system, will have to get rid of its gas and other properties, including unconsolidated investments (valued at $128,600,000) in other utilities. If the integration goes through as blueprinted, U. G. I. will cast off dominions which produced over...
...great Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich, when foreign proteins enter the body, they try to enter into harmful chemical union with body cells. The cells sprout invisible, mysterious little things called antibodies which act as chemical grappling hooks. When an invading protein seizes a hook, the cell gets rid of its eneny by loosing the hook. If there are not enough hooks to cope with the invaders, the person falls...