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...first and drier half of Ethiopia's "dry" season, in which alone military operations are possible, is now over. Bombs sprinkled around the Man of the Year have failed to get him. If Calvin Coolidge and the U. S. Marines, unhampered by Sanctions, never did succeed in bringing General Sandino to reason in Nicaragua, all the more reason for Haile Selassie to feel that his goose hangs high. On the other hand, should Mussolini decide that the diplomatic game is up. Italy's forces should be able to give a better account of themselves than they have thus...
...come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where it is higher, drier. There he punched cows, hunted, fished, slept under the stars. Outdoor life brought him a robust, ruddy-cheeked vitality he has never lost. Nights he began reading law, at 21 was admitted to the Texas bar at Uvalde. For a while he was a local judge, then went...
Dissipation of the body manufactured heat depends on the surroundings. The drier the air the more moisture-bound heat it can absorb. The faster the air moves the faster can it carry heat from the body. But if the air is hot, humid and still, the body must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed...
Judge William Squire Kenyon, appeared in Washington Brig. -Gen. Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...
...York Evening Post surveyed the U.S. on the Five & Ten last week. Its sub-headlines told the story: "Plenty in Chicago"; "High Frisco Prices"; "Detroit Trusts Grow"; "New Orleans Still Wet"; "Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...