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...order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been $188,000,000 to $238,000,000 a year. "This," sarcastically declared the country's only living ex-President, "is one of the easiest methods of reducing Government expenses yet discovered...
Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Parkes Cadman, 71, radiopreacher, pastor of Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church, onetime (1924-28) president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, onetime (1934-36) honorary Congregational moderator; of a ruptured appendix; in Plattsburg...
Result was that Alf Landon's telegram became necessary as an appendix to the platform. To the platform's declaration that sweatshops and child labor can be abolished, that minimum wages and the like for women and children can be established by State law "within the Constitution as it now stands," he added: "But if that opinion should prove to be erroneous . . . I shall favor a constitutional amendment. . . ." To the declaration for a "sound currency" he added "convertible into gold . . . [but not] unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic economy." To the declaration for extension...
...Knox College and the University of Missouri, collected the money, sent it to Heafford Junction an hour before Mrs. Field was to lose her home. Murmured tired old Mrs. Field: "So they've not forgotten us after all. I am very happy now." A London surgeon removed the appendix of Authoress Elinor ("It") Glyn, reported she was "doing as well as could be expected." Now in, her mid-sixties, Authoress Glyn will not tell her exact age. Planning a return to the stage, blonde, pouting, oldtime Cinemactress Mae Murray, whose figure remains slim despite her 47 years, called...