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...passed and flown to vacationing President Roosevelt for signing only five hours before expiration of the current temporary statute, was a new. permanent Neutrality Bill. Continued are present mandatory bans on furnishing of loans, credits, arms, munitions and implements of war to belligerents. In addition, U. S. citizens are forbidden to travel on belligerent vessels except as provided by the President, and U. S. merchantmen may not be armed. Contributions of food, clothing and medical aid, such as U. S. liberals are sending to Spam's embattled Loyalists, must have the President's approval...
...orange, the vitaminous banana and the MacIntosh apple all have high nutritive value which would be very good for general health, particularly as the hot weather has arrived. Viewed from this angle it would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...
When he was nine, he took to arguing with his father about art and his mother started teaching him music. His sisters went off to London to study ballet dancing, and John decided to go too. He danced doggedly for two years, gave it up because the students were forbidden to ride bicycles or horses. Back in art school he switched from painting to sculpture because he liked the physical exertion of carving. At 17, he decided he was old enough to enlist in the British Army but that year the War ended. He left home, got along...
...holding against Red leaders the stuffy scholarship displayed. On the contrary this show of Scholarship was judged so likely to raise the kudos of Red Mao among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week is the same Mr. Lin who in his youth...
...enemies a chance to get back at her by editing their testimony at Niles's trial, but she buys them off by doubling her offers and Niles goes free with a suspended sentence for manslaughter. In the autumn he goes back to propose marriage, but he has been forbidden to live in the town and Miss Quis feels too deeply rooted to leave...