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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering that Wilber Brucker had polled 315,000 votes on a strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
...newspaper readers had scant opportunity to judge or obtain pertinent facts last week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly on the part of English juries, to regard newspaper faults which come...
...city has been using 50-cycle current, some 100,000 electric clocks would run 20% fast on Boulder Dam power if left as they now are. Last week the city authorities opened municipal repair stations where citizens of Los Angeles may take their electric clocks, have them adjusted free of charge so that they will not gain twelve minutes every hour on Boulder Dam current...
...thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue. As he suspected, that wall of Mrs. Bramy's heart was beginning to turn to stone...
...spite of the American Mercury's description of Mr. Rosevelt as a "typical product of its training," the exact opposite seems to be true to those familiar with its ideals and teachings. Harvard's historical battle from Dunster and Leverett to Lowell and Conant, has been for a free university in a free commonwealth...