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...Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place for Sam on the overcrowded third bench and as he squeezed into it. the pair cordially shook hands...
...with a general line of chemical products. The company specializes in two major products -acetylene and oxygen. A combination of acetylene and oxygen, ignited, burns at a temperature of 6,400° F.-the hottest flame that man has yet produced. The oxygen-acetylene flame, directed with an oxyacetylene torch, melts practically every kind of metal almost instantaneously. It has two kinds of uses: cutting metal, as in scrapping locomotives, battleships; welding metal, in which the oxyacetylene flame fuses the parts to be joined together. Air Reduction is so called because it reduces air-that is, it separates air into...
...Negro. A Dominican lay brother, Blessed Martin was a "Father of the Poor." The movement to elevate Blessed Martin to sainthood is being fostered not only by priests who give Porres leaflets to Pullman porters but also by 50,000 members of the Blessed Martin Guild, founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month was unveiled a statue of Blessed Martin (see cut, p. 46), first of a Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College...
Gracie Barrie is appealing, especially in her solo, "I've Got to Get Hot," where she mourns her destiny as a torch singer. She would like, she says, to go back to Duluth and sing in the choir again...
...Hitler violated the Treaty's military clauses (TIME, March 25), played deader when Britain and Germany united in tearing up its naval clauses (TIME, June 24). But last week, the Mediterranean having been filled with British war boats, the League sprang to life against Italy at the resurrecting torch of Might...