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...Select relief administrators "on a basis of merit and fitness...
...that Reader Willett ("Losers," TIME Letters, Oct. 5) has buffaloed TIME'S timely editors, forced them to a weak reply to his implications of impure motives in their selection of Republican Chairman Hamilton as man-of-the-week, led them to select for their Oct. 5 issue two men-of-the-week (Yankee Gehrig and Giant Hubbell), one of whom must be a winner...
...Marquess of Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...this, where there are low readings, the operation is postponed until by rest and the use of digitalis the patient's vasotone is raised beyond the danger point. When the readings are low, but immediate surgery is imperative the surgeon must expect trouble, employ speed, spare trauma and select the less severe operative procedure, such as draining an organ rather than removing...
...long abed, early morning worship being for a select few, the Vagabond too old and ragged a fellow for the company. Wistfully musing, till reconciled by the happy thought that religious democracy isn't Puritan and John Harvard was. Felt cheered in my heart, moreover, by prospect of a morning of speeches that even the Vagabond and his merry fellows could understand, after so promiscuous a display of forbidding wisdom...