Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received the King's assent in traditional Norman French "Le Roy le veult!" ("The King so wills!") to the bill giving India a new federal form and Constitution, this act being the longest ever passed by Parliament (TIME, Dec. 3 et...
...Almighty God, things would have been a good deal easier this week for the Japanese Cabinet of terrified old Premier Keisuke Okada. For months Japanese jingoes have been trying to upset the Cabinet with charges that it has insufficiently defended the sanctity of the Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction into Japan of the August issue of Vanity Fair in which appeared a cartoon of His Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven...
...country reports forecast a light infantile paralysis year. Health officials take special interest in the North Carolina outbreak because there, a statistically useful number of children have been vaccinated against the disease. Manhattan's Dr. Maurice Brodie has sent 600 doses of Park-Brodie vaccine (TIME. Nov. 26 et ante) to the infected area. Of these doses, 400 were concentrated in Greensboro, N. C. (pop.: 53,569). The U. S. Public Health Service, which has sponsored Park-Brodie vaccine, knows of no vaccinated child who has developed infantile paralysis...
Last week Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass., whom the Massachusetts Medical Society quizzed as a result of the publicity given him for his operation on Alice Jane ("Upside-down Stomach") McHenry (TIME, June 17, et ante), received this well-publicized vindication from the Society...
...substance of a theological joke, appearing in last week's Living Church, Episcopal high church weekly. Explanation: The parish "up on the Hudson River "is Christ Church. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., whose rector. Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, is an energetic and articulate low churchman (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933 et ante). To insure against high church practices, the Christ Church parish board last month passed a by-law requiring the incumbent "to abstain from the use of any ornaments, forms, services, or ritual which are not definitely allowed by the rubrics of the Book of "Common Prayer or the Canons...