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...years ago Professor Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards discovered a heavy hydrogen in liquid hydrogen distilled at 466° below zero Fahrenheit. Its atomic weight was 2.0136. Later Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California following a method devised by the Bureau of Standards' Dr. Edward Wight Washburn, produced 99.5% pure heavy hydrogen. Water containing this heavy hydrogen kills guppy fish, tadpoles, worms. Probably it is poisonous...
...polish off its damnation of Goodyear, the Commision invoked the Clayton anti-trust act, charging that the alleged discrimination "tends to create a monopoly" in the making and selling of tires...
Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy; Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War; Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president...
...obstacle comes up to prevent a permanent union between Clayton and Tira. The manager of her circus arranges to have one of her old admirers, just released from prison, meet Clayton in pajamas when he calls at Tira's apartment. This leads to an estrangement, a breach of promise suit by Tira. In court she leers at the jury, winks at the judge, so thoroughly embarrasses character witnesses brought in to defame her that Clayton decides not to contest the case. When he calls on Tira to say that he still loves her, he suggests that they go away...
...some time" -sounds like the composite catchphrase of all improper stories. Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than lubricious, Vm No Angel, like She Done Him Wrong, is much more amusing than offensive. Good shot: Jack Clayton trying awkwardly to leave when, at their first meeting, Tira indicates that she would like to have him stay...