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...grown to six feet before he was eighteen. He was beyond that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such bulk as only a giant could uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live...
...Powers the Soviet Government has a vested right in the C.E.R. under the Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. If the treaty rights of any nation ?even Bolshevik Russia?are not sacred in China, then the treaty prerogatives of other nations are clearly menaced. The Powers in order to uphold their own rights (such as Japan's hold on the South Manchurian Railway) were obliged last week to uphold Moscow's rights...
Last week in Kansas City, Mo., the Endeavorers conducted their 32nd International conference. As is usual with meetings of this kind, the young people listened to speeches and passed resolutions prepared by adult leaders. They resolved: 1) to uphold the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; 2) to uphold Prohibition. These resolutions were sent as an answer to President Hoover's message of "cordial greetings . . . deep appreciation." In part they said: "[The delegates] send you the assurance of their affectionate regard and pledge their loyalty in the following words...
...Prohibition. Its representatives appear before Congressional committees for Dry legislation, against Wet proposals. It classifies Congressmen according to their voting record on Prohibition. It favors or opposes presidential appointees on the basis of "public morals." It agitates Sunday closing laws, book and cinema censorship. It supplies debaters to uphold the Dry side of any Prohibition argument. It compiles Sunday School textbooks, temperance leaflets for Epworth Leagues, pledges Negro school children to total abstinence...
...easily won. To get what he wanted?a farm bill without a federal subsidy?he had to sacrifice his tenet that a President should never interfere with Congress, should never dictate to it on legislation. When, earlier in the week, the Senate had ignored his advice and voted to uphold its export debenture plan, the President very definitely interfered, very distinctly dictated...