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...delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts an elusive hare when he points out that banksters are no new phenomenon. In 1819 the combined "borrowings" of directors and employes of the City Bank of Baltimore exceeded the entire capital of the bank by $100,000. John Jacob Astor used $5,000,000 of Government money for 20 years, paid...
...Divine Moment (by Robert Hare Powel; produced by Peggy Fears Blumenthal). A patrician old spinster (Charlotte Granville) lies in her Newport, R. I. house where the lamps are still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these...
Last week the U. S. college hockey season got under way. In the East the teams of the newly formed Intercollegiate Quadrangular Hockey League (Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton) were playing for a trophy in memory of Hobart Amory Hare ("Hobey") Baker, famed all-around Princeton athlete of 20 years ago. Shrewd critics rated Princeton's team best this year, Harvard's next. All four started with victories over early opponents until Yale tackled McGill in Montreal last week. McGill, with its best team in 15 years, ran a 5-to-1 score over Yale without appearing...
...cures of sickness no more signify an infallible remedy than do two swallow's make a summer. Nevertheless physicians were interested last week when Dr. Ronald Hare of London reported in the Lancet two cures of influenza pneumonia with serum prepared from human beings convalescing from influenza...
...Both cases," wrote Dr. Hare, "reacted in a very dramatic fashion." The first patient, a woman of 27, began to improve after two injections four hours apart. She slept well that night, received a third injection next day. Despite a tendency to run temperatures of 100°, she continued to improve steadily. The second patient's progress was uninterrupted. Chest pain and difficulty in breathing disappeared within four hours after an injection...