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...opening up of the submarine revealed "one of the most heartrending and pathetic tragedies in the history of the Japanese Navy." Scribbled messages on scraps of paper, op chests, doors and floor of the stricken boat disclosed the heroic attitude of the men during their last moments...
...House: Appropriated $1,000,000 for the relief of drought-stricken farmers in New Mexico...
...both bone and flesh of the heel developed. Dr. William F. Reinhoff, resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, began by cutting off the tuberculous part of the heel. He then cut a deep wound in the calf of Hamilton's uninjured leg, put the remainder of the stricken heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from the flesh of the leg. He will then separate heel from leg. "Except for a scar...
Thus gently reminded of their civic duty and the Fascist cudgels and castor oil, panic-stricken electors rushed to the polls to "vote the right way." More than 6,000,000 voters-over 50% of the electorate-turned out-a high record for Italy.* The new electoral system (TIME, May 28, et seq.) is a triumph of the ingenuity of the Latin mind. Broadly speaking, the party receiving the largest number of votes, providing its plurality be one-quarter of the "total vote cast, will receive 356 seats-two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The remaining...
...feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when the Republican insurgents went back to their party), but at the high tide of Democratic success, Whip Oldfield assembled on the floor all but three Democratic members. One was at a funeral. Two were lying at the point of death...