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...move on foot to make the forbidden word "syphilis" a popular subject for dinner-table conversation probably has its redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
...meantime he had explored the Amazon, dug up Inca remains in Peru, penetrated the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet...
...Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with...
...Under the Code Napoleon it is still forbidden, except in a few cases, to take legal steps to find out who is the father of an illegitimate French child...
...Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 provided that all utility holding companies must register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden to use the mails and the facilities of interstate commerce if they did not. SEC would then have the power to control their financial and security transactions and, under the "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Many utility holding companies not only refused to register but declared they would get injunctions against the whole Act. SEC then agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought...