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...operation. Chandu monotonously rescues them from his clutches to which they monotonously return. Using his knack of turning rifles into snakes, turning gold pieces into toads, stiffening ropes upright in air, passing through solid walls, getting out of coffins at the bottom of the Nile, and abrogating strict Yoga discipline long enough to fall in love with an Egyptian princess, Chandu should reasonably have solved the situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given as his eyes ("hypnotism, nothing more") and Edmund Lowe's affable face works hard trying to look mystical. Tear...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...
...Senator Long has been doing most of the talking for his man Overton. An outcast among regular Senate Democrats, Long flays Broussard for not favoring his plan "to break up big fortunes." He explains the Broussard opposition to Prohibition thus: "He was afraid enforcement of Prohibition would be so strict that he could not get his bottle. You will never wean Edwin from the bottle but we are going to wean him from the Senate...
...door on a stretcher, lifted to her feet. Leaning on a heavy cane, she advanced, flanked on either side by a big-hipped Amazonian Red. Pain and fatigue made perspiration pour down the sunken cheeks of Clara Zetkin but her old eyes flashed. "I shall do my duty in strict accordance with the rules of antiquated parliamentarianism," she gasped, "because it is my duty to the German proletariat...
...leadership of President Mortimer Norton Buckner of the Clearing House Association to launch the long-debated $50,000,000 Commodities Finance Corp. (TIME, Aug. 15). Though dubbed "the commodity pool" in its rumor stage, C. F. C. will purchase no commodities. It will conduct a financing business along strict banking lines. Banker Buckner defined its scope as "facilitating the financing of the purchase, carrying, and orderly marketing ... of agricultural and other commodities." Actual operations will be handled by two subsidiaries, one engaging solely in an acceptance business, the other lending to worthy companies. C. F. C.'s directors...