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Obviously Astrologer Privat's account of his warning to Statesman Barthou can neither be confirmed nor denied by the dead man, but Statesman Mussolini last week was very much alive. Said M. Privat boldly: "I consider Mussolini a man fatally stricken. The 27th of January 1936 is ominous for him. From that day on he will fall rapidly. I wrote to him at the beginning of 1934 to undertake nothing during the year, because the conjunction of the stars was sinister for him. And I am sure that he was answering me in his speech of last October when...
...agreed to collaborate with him on a play, Shaw wrote the dialog, then dispensed with Archer's part. When Wells, accusing the Fabian Society of aping Shaw and failing in its duties, offered a program for changing it. Shaw delivered a speech so vigorous that Wells "was left stricken on the field" and resigned from the Fabians...
...stricken with infantile paralysis, which rendered his legs almost useless. As a result, he was forced to give up his vocation of fire insurance inspector, and so turned his attention to various Asiatic languages. He now has a reading knowledge of Sanskrit, Hindustani, Persian, Hebraic, and a profound understanding of Arabic...
...program is another example of the government energetically pursuing its way about a circle, only to meet itself half-way coming back. One out of fourteen of the farm population are to be "rehabilitated" with the Government again doing the underwriting. Should the program be successful, the once poverty-stricken farmers will be producing beyond the dreams of their forerunners with individualistic tendencies. This program alone, providing it were successful, would be enough to destroy the AAA lock, stock, and barrel. The conservation program and government services instructing the farmer how to grow more per unit of land are merely...
...York Supreme Court is a suit brought by Joseph Lewis to enjoin the Municipal Board of Education, on constitutional grounds, from using the Bible in schools. Dismissed by Justice William T. Collins last week was an application by Freethinker Lewis to have the Board's defense answers stricken out. In a 14-page opinion Justice Collins declared the use of the Bible constitutional: "The law is astute and zealous in seeing to it that all religious beliefs and disbeliefs be given unfettered expression. Authentic freethinking involves the indubitable right to believe in God, as well as the unfettered license...