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...grey, stone-built Edinburgh last week the 70-year-old 7th Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
...vocational school at Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1907. Five years later he entered politics as delegate to the State constitutional convention, where he was the author of an amendment creating a State department of education. Same year he successfully stood for election to Congress from the 6th (later the 7th) District of Ohio. He was successively re-elected until 1922, having resigned Antioch's presidency in 1917. In 1922 with strong female and Dry support he won his seat in the Senate, defeating Democratic Senator Atlee Pomerene. In Congress: Except for one innocent flutter toward Progressivism in his early...
...Bernardino Bilbao Rioja and his 2nd Bolivian Division have smashed the 2nd Paraguayan Division, cut off the 7th Paraguayan from establishing contact with the 8th, and completely encircled the left wing of the Paraguayan force. . . . Collecting the great number of Paraguayan wounded has placed a heavy burden on all Bolivian detachments." Later figures gave Paraguayan losses at 3,000 dead, 5,000 wounded, 1,633 prisoners including 78 officers. Paraguay did not take this defeat quietly. To the League's Secretary in Geneva Ramon Caballero de Bedoya announced that, to its great regret, Paraguay was about to embark...
...influence of the cinema upon minors. The Council's executive director, the Rev. William Harrison Short, got $200,000 from the Payne Fund and started hiring expert researchers. Last year the Council published its findings in a series called Motion Pictures and Youth (Macmillan), of which the 7th fat black volume appeared in November. This winter the M. P. R. C. has been getting ready for the second phase of its program-to persuade or compel the cinema industry to produce better (i. e. more moral) pictures. First step was to acquire active officers with influential names. Last month...
...reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans adopted their faith-Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew up, with lamas (monks), priests, metropolitans, abbots, hutukhtus (saints). With a graded priesthood and a liturgy which included vestments, chants and prayers, Lamaism came to resemble a caricatured...