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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President de Valera's new Constitution. which would set up in the Free State a state wholly free, with the office of Governor-General abolished and all specific reference to the British Crown removed, will come before the Dail in the form of a Bill before Christmas. The Constitution contains provisions for the election directly by the people of a Chief Magistrate similar to the President of the U. S.; for a bicameral legislature in which the new Senate would be constituted not on party lines but on a functional "corporative state'' basis. "We do not, however...
...that packed Madison Square Garden crackled with applause when a severe, vaguely familiar-looking man in a tail coat came out into the ring to receive the salute of 26 of the world's ablest cavalry officers, picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop of 37 in scarlet tunics and broad-brimmed hats, carrying lances with pennants, maneuvered...
...than 150,000 mice. Their purpose: to learn whether or not a tendency to cancer is inherited, and, if so, how. Dr. Slye has decided and firmly declared that cancer is genetically a recessive character which she can breed out of her mice and could, if given a stupendously free hand, breed out of human beings (TIME, Aug. 31). Dr. Little, less loudly, declares Dr. Slye's contentions pure poppycock...
...Literary Free...
Although the portraits of eminent men of letters usually show features as battered as those of heavyweight prizefighters, the legend persists that the literary life is genteel, academic, serene. Last week three survivors of many a literary free-for-all contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat...