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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
California Store Tax, Among 23 questions submitted to California's voters, the one that made the biggest stir was No. 22, to settle whether a law passed by the Legislature in 1935 should go into effect. Called modestly a retail store license, it provided a $1 tax on the first store in a chain, $2 on the second, $4 on the third and so on up to $500 on the tenth and each subsequent store. Gasoline stations and beauty parlors were exempted, but other chain stores, led by Safeway with 1,300 stores, got the help of Adman...
Constant contact with a little child can bring about a wholesome effect in an overanxious household, Dr. Perkins finds. "Attention is distracted from one's own personal problems through the outpouring of interest and affection on behalf of the newcomer . . . and it is by no means an uncommon experience for persons who have been victims of sexual frigidity to discover that the intimate responsibility and care of a little child have aroused a long postponed reaction...
Lest childless couples disbelieve that experience, Dr. Perkins cited another experience "which is frequent enough to be called common." "I refer," wrote Dr. Perkins, "to the stimulating effect upon the nervous centres controlling the reproductive apparatus which is experienced as a result of the proximity of a little child. The maternal instincts, not quite the same as but certainly very closely associated with the reproductive urge, are definitely aroused by this contact. Perhaps the reason why it has not been brought to general notice more forcibly is that the people who have experienced this sensation are a little ashamed...
...extra dividend representing an estimated one-half of the year's profits not needed for the $2 Sears regular. In December, when full-year figures can be estimated more closely, the directors will meet again, probably vote another extra of at least the same amount. In effect, the No. 1 U. S. mail-order house committed itself to paying out approximately all it earned...