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Such reasoning had so obvious an appeal to the Chamber that Premier Paul-Boncour threw overboard some of Papa Chéron's most onerous taxes and economies. For a time the Cabinet seemed to have been saved. It won a vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum...
...workman trimming a big tree in Tuscarawas Park at New Philadelphia, Ohio one day last week, suddenly gasped and stared. There, in a rain-filled crevice, 40 ft. above ground, alive and wriggling, lay a 7-in. catfish. Goggle-eyed with wonder, the sawyer carried it down, threw it in a nearby lake. The catfish swam swiftly away...
...Federal Trade Commission, has been the electric light & power business. Three years ago the Trade Commission focused attention on the vigorous propaganda work which the National Electric Light Association, controlled by disgraced Samuel Insull, was carrying on in schools and colleges (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Later the Insull crash threw into bold relief such practices as the looting of operating companies by holding companies, the publication of misleading financial statements and unscrupulous lobbying carried on by certain N. E. L. A. members...
...sooner threw him out before the orchestra leader came over and complained about something. Seems that eight young men were helping him lead the band, and all of them were using billiard cues instead of batons...
Chicago's militant Obstetrician Joseph Bolivar DeLee, founder of remarkably sanitary Chicago Lying-in Hospital, last week threw the morbid facts into Medicine's teeth,* tamped them down Medicine's throat with the heavily honest Journal of the American Medical Association. Roared Dr. DeLee: "Evidence enough to convince any jury of husbands or any committee of life insurance adjusters. . . . The general hospital is a veritable cesspool of infection. . . . Meddlesome midwifery and puerperal infection seem to cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something...