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...biographers. Likewise he detests the prostitution of literary art by men who write with their tongue in their cheek for the sake of reaping rewards in lucre and not in reputation. His abhorrence of all that is cheap and tainted is great; he is far distant from political graft...
According to the missionaries, not only is opium grown and consumed without restriction in six provinces (see map), but elsewhere and in provinces where it is barred by law bootleg opium and smok-easies flourish. More serious, illegal "taxes" are collected on opium in many places, graft and corruption flourish on the weed...
...matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless liquid at -456º F. That temperature is less than...
...promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled and benevolent, he kept repeating: "Chicago needs a business man for Mayor. . . . Take the circus from City Hall. . . . Chase away the grafters. . . . Bring honesty back into the Government. . . . Cut out its graft. . . . Stop the log-rolling...
...recapture some of its old pugnaciousness with special articles which, while they lost some old readers, gained more new ones. One such enterprise was a long series of reports on the effects of Prohibition, with the conclusion that the law was unenforceable. An-other was the expose of alleged graft in Hidalgo, Tex., which resulted in $1,000,000 worth of libel suits by Rentfro Banton Creager, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss (TIME. Sept. 16, 19291. Collier's won the first suit for $500,000; the second was withdrawn. Above all. Editor Chenery insisted that every feature interest every...