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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas last week was still technically under contract to the Government of Alberta and Messiah Aberhart has said, "Though we do not see eye to eye in all respects, Major Douglas will be invited to superintend in Alberta the inauguration and ad ministration of Social Credit with its three basic principles...
Oldtime religious uproar, as an excuse for battles, trick photography and downstairs orgies; is the basic DeMille formula. In Palestine, The Crusades gets its second wind and builds up to two of the liveliest climaxes in its director's career. The first arrives when Saladin (Ian Keith), the Saracen leader, kidnaps Berengaria. Richard hurries a siege tower, ladders and catapults to the walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet...
...experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination has power over body, directs the basic cravings of living creatures. That proof earned Dr. Pavlov a Nobel Prize (1904), the gratitude of Christian Science, the devotion of physiologists, and the respect of Russian peasants and workers. Today he continues his researches in the fine big Institute for Experimental Medicine close to Leningrad, draws $10,000 a year...
...Soup Sirs: When you make the distinction French between English and French soups in your "Soupstakes'' article in TIME, July 15, you err in that while your English way of making soup is the autochthonous English soup, in your French method you give an intellectualized, wholly professional basic recipe. If that be the French method, how do you explain the national soup of all France, the pot-au-feu which like the English and all European national and regional soups starts with water into which things are put, not "thrown," methodically and with an uncanny sense of measure...
...Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation serves a wide range of basic industries throughout the country, including steel, agriculture, oil, textiles, glass, soap, building and roadmaking. This statement may be of interest in connection with the basic industrial situation in the U. S. during the last month...