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Roosevelt Has a Chance "Roosevelt still has a good chance of being reelected in 1936," according to Mr. Thomas. "Much of the anti-Roosevelt talk in the East should be taken with a grain of salt and the Literary Digest straw vote cannot be construed as a true indication. Anybody with a grievance against the New Deal voted against it, but that does not mean they would vote for a Republican in the election...
...hour examination to be given to Freshmen entering on the highest seventh plan before the beginning of the term should determine accurately enough whether or not a student shall be banished to the Siberian salt mines for a long, hard winter. While it is as necessary as ever that a Harvard student have a reasonably complete knowledge of the English language, this preliminary test will let under the wire many students to whom Freshman English would be a completely sterile routine...
...Nebraska's 74-year-old utility hating statesman, Senator George W. Norris-unlike Virginia's 77-year-old Glass and Idaho's 70-year-old Borah-loves to talk privately about retiring from public life. Recently passing through Salt Lake City, Utah, he talked about it, in his usual vein, to local newshawks. Promptly the news was flashed from coast to coast: Senator Norris would not run again in 1936. Franklin Roosevelt, questioned about the news in press conference, genially expanded. Said he: "If I were a citizen of Nebraska, regardless of what party I belonged...
...great collection of more fortunate and more distinguished travelers had been pouring into Manila for days to be on hand for an historic happening. Chief among the visitors was George Henry Dern of Salt Lake City, Utah. As Secretary of War, he was head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, which had supervised Philippine affairs during the 37 years they had been under U. S. dominion. Now George Dern was in Manila to read a proclamation which Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just signed on the other side of the world in Washington. The proclamation briefly certified the election on Sept...
...Curie-Joliots' first results in artificial radioactivity have been duplicated and extended in a half-dozen countries, especially by California's Lawrence and Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...