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...Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek insists that "officially" Chinese Settlement Day, same as Chinese New Year's, is "unofficial." Actually on that day, which falls this year on Feb. 4, every due debt in China must be paid or the debtor irretrievably loses face...
...incident was referred for settlement to two commissioners of arbitration appointed under the U. S.-British liquor treaty of 1924. One was precise, deliberate Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court. The other was the Canadian Supreme Court's bland, blue-eyed, brilliant Justice Lyman Poore Duff, who relaxes for sleep with calculus problems and long corresponded in Greek with the late Lord Haldane. Years passed. Justice Duff was upped to Chief Justice of Canada. Justice Van Devanter saw burgeon in the U. S. a New Deal. Prohibition passed and the I'm Alone...
...note the importance not of what the Court said, but of what it left unsaid. From this viewpoint one may realize that the decision is not of world-shaking importance, proving either that the Constitution is outmoded or that the recovery program is unconstitutional, but a simple legal settlement of a technical question involving...
...four-car work-train filled with sleepy-eyed men. They were going to their jobs in a mine atop a nearby hill, owned by Elkhorn-Piney Coal Co., subsidiary of Koppers Coal & Transportation Co. of Pittsburgh, which also owned the train. As the train stopped at each little valley settlement, workmen climbed on jauntily swinging pails. With some 300 passengers aboard, Engineer William M. Blankenhorn stopped at the little mining community of Powellton, to work up more steam. Up & up went the pressure gauge. Satisfied that he had enough, Engineer Blankenhorn opened the throttle...
Completely on their own, they will study drama with the Theater Guild, dancing with professional dancers, science in clinics, social service in settlement houses and the Emergency Relief Administration. Government students will peer behind the scenes at Washington; marine biologists will peer through glass-bottomed boats off Bermuda. While music students make a round of concerts, art students will browse through galleries or attach themselves as apprentices to artists. A few intrepid girls will tend spindles in hosiery mills. At the end of February they will all be back on their Vermont campus at the foot of Mount Anthony...