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...mustard gas and Lewisite which are toxic poisons to anything that they touch," added Captain Phillips, "the only protection is a suit, similar to oilskins, that covers the whole body but which so hampers a man as to make him unfit for actual combat...
...Marie Carmichael Stopes, authoress of Married Love and Wise Parenthood, lost her libel suit against Dr. H. G. Sutherland, who accused her of "experimenting on poor women." The Lord Chief Justice set aside the verdict of the jury awarding her ?100 damages, stating that no evidence had been presented showing that the accusations made by Dr. Sutherland were founded upon ill will. He summed up Dr. Stopes' birth control activities as "a monstrous campaign." The learned Judge's opinion is not likely to be popular in London, where Dr. Stopes is believed to have done considerable good...
Rheinold Mory, sculptor: " I designed a statue of a nude Venus for a public fountain in a suburb of Atlantic City, but the city council would not accept it. So I clothed her in a one-piece bathing suit and hung and draped a cape over her left arm, and the council accepted...
...Suit of Ohio and Pennsylvania to prevent West Virginia from restricting exportation of her natural resources...
...suit by the Chicago Board of Trade attacking the constitutionality of the "Grain Futures Act," under which the government seeks control over the principal grain exchanges of the country...