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...hastily withdrawn. A later suggestion was that MacDonald himself should take the post, taking the title of Lord MacDonald of Lossiemouth and handing his Prime Ministry over to jovial Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson. This was too much for even the MacDonald sense of humor. Other names flew thick and fast for weeks, until last week Lord Willingdon was appointed...
...Last week a plane carrying Secretary of War. Patrick Hurley from Washington to New York for the Army-Navy game was forced down by thick fog at Edgewater Arsenal, Md. While the plane was landing, a piece of the fuselage Was blown loose, struck and gashed the .pilot's head, -momentarily stunned him. ∙Comparable rather to a marine keel-laying was the ring-laying and driving of a golden rivet at the beginning of construction on Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.'s ZRS-4, first of the two great Navy dirigibles, last year at Akron (TIME...
Interior. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, sent in a thick, beautifully written report which read like a modern college textbook. Sample: "Continental conservation is the key to the future of this Nation. . . . Conservation is a term, around which much confusion has reigned. Conservation means wise use. Wise use means that a natural asset shall be used for the proper purpose and at the right time...
...perfectly true that a knowledge of American History and a legal education are decided assets to the politician, but a thick skin is even more valuable. A profession such as this which is tainted by the tactics of its less honorable members requires a certain imperviousness to misconceptions and in-appreciation. To be enrolled in any of the political parties makes strange bedfellows, whom the aspiring young candidate must accept or give the appearance of accepting, without reserve...
...blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were set on fire. Two walls surrounded the city. The outer, 8 ft. thick, rolled down the slope on which Jericho was built. Portions of the inner wall, 12 ft. thick, resisted the fire, still stand. Charred dwellings give evidence to substantiate the Biblical account that flames rolled over the city, burned the Canaanites to crisps...