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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...losing his influence in the Party's affairs. But even more formidable than these antagonists were Britain's 6,500,000 Laborites themselves of whom nearly two-and-a-half million sent postcards to the conference voting against Sir Stafford's proposals. Deluged by this repudiation, Sir Stafford was content to take a comparatively minor place in the Party's national executive committee, thereby giving Labor a united front far different from the faction-riddled Conservative Party's, and making it clear that for the present, at any rate, he endorsed the milder Henderson-Morrison plan of action...
Physicists have not been content to pursue the cosmic ray in laboratories. They have carried their ionization chambers to mountain peaks, installed them on round-the-world ships, sunk them to the bottom of deep lakes, taken them down in mines, flown them in airplanes, sent them up in balloons manned and unmanned. All over the world, from Panama to Ceylon, from the Equator to within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole, they have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units...
...prevention, not cure." And with all the untrammeled certainty of a man who is accustomed to see to it that his own prophecies come true, he went on to polish off his brief for the importance of dental research with a declaration that "dentists will not be content with anything less than complete equality with the other branches of the medical profession...
...pictures-for nothing. In three months Father Keller had his pictorial. Advance copies so impressed churchmen that they stepped up their orders to as many as 250,000 copies in big dioceses. As Catholic Missions went on sale this Sunday Father Keller and S. P. F. felt content to recover .9? for paper and printing, .1? for distributing each copy...
That Mrs. Vanderbilt had any legal right to her daughter Mrs. Whitney would not admit. When "Reggie" Vanderbilt died in 1925 his beauteous wife was but 20, too young to have legal custody of their baby. For ten years Mrs. Vanderbilt was content to let relatives worry over her daughter's upbringing. Three months ago she applied to be made Gloria's guardian. Mrs. Whitney countered with the charge that her sister-in-law was not a fit person to have her own daughter...