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...advisory body to be set up, composed of the British High Commissioner and 22 representatives-ten appointed, twelve elected-forming a Legislative Council. If any Palestinian group shall abstain from electing its representatives they shall be appointed by the High Commissioner...
...records show a gradual spread of institutional medicine in the U. S., of doctors working for hire?for clinics, insurance companies, factories, labor camps, government agencies. Especially does governmental interference with medicine annoy Dr. Morgan and his A. M. A. associates. They insist that the Government should abstain from conducting, controlling or subsidizing any form of medical treatment "excepting such service as is provided by the Army, Navy or Public Health Service, and that which is necessary for the control of communicable diseases, the treatment of mental diseases, the treatment of the indigent sick, and such other service...
...members to "divide." Up they get, out they walk into the lobbies of their choice. As they do so Division Clerks record their names and these are counted by four Tellers whom the Speaker has previously appointed and who report to him. Members who are present but wish to abstain, merely remain in their seats. Finally the members re-enter the House and the Speaker tells them what the tellers have told...
...been well known that His Holiness, like very many elderly men of immaculate habits, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. The infirmity can become painful, can cause bladder distress, uremia. The specialists decided that there was at least no immediate necessity of prostatectomy, relieved him by catheterization, advised him to abstain from many papal obligations. Such advice His Holiness, a man of indomitable will, of course disregarded for the nonce. Perhaps after the public investiture of his new cardinals his household would persuade him to retire to the balmy hills above Rome...
...taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare could not abstain from making puns...