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...Mahoney. He it was who, by nimble action on the President's message, preserved for Congress a half-interest in the investigation, and became its chairman. And since he did that, the mood of Congress has become even less critical of Business. Last week's copious anesthetics, administered by Mr. Henderson and friends, were thus for the benefit of Congress as well as for Business and for the scholarly reputation of the misnamed Monopoly Investigation...
...time again last week in deciding what to do about the irresistible force of Zionism that has met the immovable object of Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under Sir John Woodhead...
...week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts of salt water to replace the salts lost in sweat. Artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain, but the precise effect of such an abnormal temperature on mental processes has not yet been discovered...
LAMENT FOR A MAKER-Michael Innes -Dodd, Mead ($2). A poet-madman, lord of gloomy Castle Erchany, is found dead at the foot of his castle tower. Ingenious plot; scholarly, leisurely style; copious Scottish dialect...
Investigation showed that some student had had his room smeared with copious blobs of exceptionally ripe Limburger cheese by practical jokers. The cheese was so strong, however, that it "walked" right out of the room and filtered throughout the building...