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...ability"-with every word his voice grew more emphatic-"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, SO HELP YOU GOD?" With his palm on the old Dutch bible of Claes Martenzen van Rosenvelt (protected from the rain by a heavy sheet of waterproof cellophane) Mr. Roosevelt threw...
...Ohio the river which gives the State its name went hog wild, first broke all records established in the 1913 flood, then proceeded to top the even more disastrous inundations of 1884. Full of foam, mud and debris, the Scioto River swept down on Portsmouth, which seven years ago threw up a $750,000 sea wall of steel & concrete to keep the Scioto and Ohio away from its doors. Last year to the 62-ft. wall was added a supplementing levee of sandbags and Portsmouth stayed dry. This year the flood was not to be cheated...
...When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces of Earth, Air and Sky. Even Shiva's arms which are serpents, did not avail him. Finally in desperation he struck the demon with the club Vishnu had given him, and won the fight...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing Co.'s Collier's and American Magazine, and including TIME. First suit to get a court decision was against Crowell, asking $75,000. A U. S. District Court threw this suit out on the ground that the advertisement was "not libelous." But Justice Learned Hand of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals decreed...
...lawyers-delegates deciding that some of the things they were doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal judicial posts...