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Economic. In London last week, political circles were thrilled by a speech from Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, "Enemy of Capitalism" as some still like to call him. His words were prophetic, revealing, in the present, a rift within the Labor Party and, in the future, the shoals of dangerous commercial enmity. His utterance, issued in that sharp, rasping voice that verges upon the disagreeable, implicated the Free Trade platform upon which Labor stood at the last election (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.), and gave shape to a political crisis that may, some predicted, involve the country...
...discusses the actions and reactions of a district attorney's wife who has denied herself amatory intrigue in deference to her husband's career and reputation. He is promptly disclosed on the brink of official malpractice. Some three acts of philosophy, maundering and epigram are required to open this rift in their domestic lute and close it happily...
...Rousmaniere expressed the opinion that the present fundamental movement is a reactionary result of the liberal thought fostered by the war. As for the heralded "rift in the Episcopal Church" he was positive that no such thing would occur." Ever since the sixteenth century, there have been two parties, liberal and conservative, in the church. It is the old difference of high church and low church...
...explaining this type of phenomenon, there comes a rift in the ranks of the psychic investigators. Some believe that these messages come from the souls of the deceased in the next world. Others, the more rational group, believe that such messages are due rather to the subconscious transmission of thought from the mind of one living person to that of another. The first theory is known as the spiritualistic, the second as the telepathic...
There are definite earthquake zones on the surface of the earth following definite rift lines. They occur where mountain-making is in progress. Large segments of the earth in adjusting themselves in equilibrium exert tremendous pressure. By this process mountains are raised in the course of a few million years, a comparatively short time geologically speaking. From time to time under the huge stresses which fold and warp rocks, the strain becomes too great in the earth's crust, something gives way and the whole earth shakes. No exact, scientific explanation of these movements has been reached...