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Federal troops last week protected Monte Alban from marauders. That, however, did not deter the treasure hunters. There are tunnels through the territory which the Cloud People once ruled. The tunnels, some of them 30 miles long, connected old cities, many of them vanished. A few of the tunnels
...there has been a movement to make a "professors' union" of the Association, its powers at present consist chiefly in uttering threats at enemies of academic freedom. Last week it moved a step nearer unionization. Delegates voted to keep a "non-recommended list" of unsatisfactory colleges which would "deter" (not prevent) member-professors from teaching in them...
...trial last week Defendants Gotch et al pleaded, successfully, that the pictures were privileged as an exhibit "designed to deter criminal acts...
...prices, however, did not deter the tycoons of southwestern wheat production from harvesting crops larger than ever. By far the biggest wheat farmer in Texas is Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand...
...There is nothing in the encyclical which should deter Catholics from becoming members of the British Labor Party. . . . Good, sincere Catholics have been Conservatives and Liberals and Laborites...