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...where it is liable to swing too far in this direction. Policies are being adopted in Washington which should be forged on the anvil of national debate and the Republican party has the responsibility in seeing that this is accomplished. They allowed an admiration for individuality coupled with a dread of control and social legislation to destroy their chances for success in the early years of the depression. Desirable indications point to the fact that they are abandoning this attitude and trying to adopt a position of the minimum control consistent with the national welfare. It is a difficult position...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...
...Belgian Congo the dread tsetse fly, transmitter of African sleeping sickness, was a menace. The cinemactors protected themselves by anointment with a foul-smelling oil which repelled the tsetse flies. Miss Booth, however, contracted malaria and dysentery, fell from a tree and almost fractured her skull, suffered a sunstroke. When she returned to Hollywood, her young husband, who had remained behind, got their marriage annulled. Wife of one of the Trader Horn actors sued her for $50,000 for alienation of affection. And M-G-M doctors took her in charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility...
Four dashes, repeated for one minute every three minutes, is the radio beacon signal of the lightship that guards dread Nantucket Shoals. The first lightship was stationed off the shoals in 1854. Three years ago Lightship No. 117, a 132-ft. craft equipped with every device science could think of to protect transatlantic shipping, was launched at Charleston, S. C. and took up its rough and lonely post 40 mi. southeast of Nantucket Island...
...preserve forever the peace which four years of strife had taught them to cherish and to bring among the people of the earth a new harmony. One man, above the others, sought alone to rekindle those lights which Lord Grey had seen going out all over Europe in the dread spring of 1914. He was an honest, earnest man who by his teachings and his phrases had taught men to believe that they could rule themselves and that nations could lie down together...