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...Brazil. Japanese emigrants have been flocking to Brazil in late years. More than 150,000 of them are settled there on little farms, growing rice and mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian Congress to amend the Constitution, limiting annual Japanese immigration to 2% of the present Japanese population. Foreign Minister Hirota wrote thus to Acting Foreign Minister Felix de Barros Cavalcanti de Lacerda...
...beef-raising Democrat John Benjamin Kendrick was elected to the U. S. Senate by such overwhelming majorities that the State seemed on the verge of choosing him in 1034 by acclamation. But two months ago Senator Kendrick died. In an amazing burst of nonpartisanship Republicans joined with Democrats to amend the State Constitution so that Wyoming's Governor, Leslie Andrew Miller, could appoint to the Senate Senator Kendrick's onetime secretary, Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney...
...Houses. But if student opinion were united, and pressure put on University Hall through the housemasters, it might be driven to admit that 3.2 beer with meals was a privilege which Harvard is certainly adult enough to claim, and to suggest this to the Massachusetts legislature. A simple amendment of the beer age limit from twenty-one to eighteen would be nothing but a legal acknowledgment of a plain fact. Even the Massachusetts legislature cannot remain forever so far from the walks of men, and so remote from their habits; with a little encouragement from the University, they would...
...clean tooth, well nourished and well exercised [by brushing gums], can never decay," was the way Mayo Clinic's Dr. Boyd S. Gardner wanted to amend dentistry's famed slogan...
...Rejected a resolution by Oklahoma's Johnson to amend the War Department supply bill so that no retired officer would be paid more than $2,400 per year. The amendment was aimed at General Pershing's $21.500 retirement pay, General Harbord...