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Constitutionalists. The Constitutional Party is generally regarded as liberal, but is in effect conservative. Like all other parties, it has suffered from the Fascist encroachment upon its policies. Signori Giolitti and Nitti are expected to be the most prominent leaders, but whether they will split or unite the Party cannot be determined until after the Fascist Grand Council has met in Rome to give voice to the Fascist policy, following which the Constitutionalists will state their platform. Most of the people who have been shocked at the Fascisti brutalities have fallen back on the Constitutionalists...
...true that beginning with Jan. 18, 1898, he served various terms of imprisonment amounting in all to ten years. "It was in prison that I finally became converted to the theory of Marx." He was a Social Democrat. After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement. . . I broke with the Mensheviki and remained outside both factions," he related. After Bloody Sunday, Jan. 9, 1905, he seems to have become an ardent Bolshevik...
...substance called bios (life) was discovered 20 years ago by a Belgian professor at Louvain University, but Dr. Miller, in experimenting on yeast, found that minute quantities of this substance greatly stimulated the growth of cells. In attempting to extract it from wort, he found that it could be split into the two new compounds...
...announced his discovery of Zeta rays, described his original work with isotopes, or elements having the same chemical structure but different atomic weights. Another American, Professor McCoy of Chicago, first discovered that chlorine, mercury and zinc are not unitary elements, but can be separated into isotopes. Dr. Harkins has split all three of them into their components, obtaining his most successful results by the use of liquid air, which is too costly to use for laboratory purposes...
...Until recently, Parliament was split into two sections, one at Peking, and one at Canton, so that neither could secure a quorum. But some of the members came back at Peking, and now there are only 60 or 70 members at Shanghai who refuse to join in the Parliament. These protesting members believe that Li Yuan Hung was deposed illegally in 1917 and will not recognize Kun Tsao. Mr. Chen explained that there was also another government under Sun Yat-Sen in the extreme southern provinces which is virtually independent...