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Interested Parties. The Roosevelt farm bill, so drastic in administrative possibilities, immediately precipitated, hotter than ever, familiar arguments between interested parties. As emergency measures the President's bank, beer and economy bills were practically undebatable. Farm Relief, a hard old rock on which three other administrations stuck, loomed as the first dangerous test of White House leadership. Most rural Senators and Representatives agreed that it was "a pretty good bill" but nowhere was there any red-hot belief in its magic...
Fault. Leland Stanford University maintains Professor Lydik Siegumfeldt Jacobsen and a vibration table by means of which he simulates the shocks and temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers...
...Good Father." Cardinal-elect Villeneuve cares for the second oldest see in North America, the one Writer Willa Gather made famous in Shadows on the Rock. His election as archbishop made certain his appointment as cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape...
...expeditions often consisted of racing desert animals. The Gobi Desert has a rock floor which in many places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...
Washington sightseers still flock to the grave in Rock Creek Cemetery where Henry Adams and his wife lie buried, to ask each other tripperish questions about the brooding bronze figure, famed work of Adams' friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In accordance with Henry's educated will, "no inscription, date, letters or other attempt at memorial" give curious onlookers any clear hint of what his education amounted...