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Attorney General Cummings whose men caught John Dillinger and Indiana's Governor McNutt, whose men let him escape, talked about crime. Madam Secretary Perkins urged unemployment insurance; and President Stanley King of Amherst College warned against rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session...
...blackened hulk of the T. E. L. Morro Castle was hardly cold last week before newsphoto agencies leaped headlong into the advertising pages of Editor & Publisher to tell the trade how they trounced their competitors in the race for pictures of this latest marine catastrophe. All the boasting was done by Acme Newspictures and International News Photos at the expense of their common enemy, the Associated Press...
...founders, and one of the Industry's few shoe-string pioneers who are still relatively young. Roy Chapin did not look so young after serving a half-year as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce but since he returned to Detroit he has slowed Hudson's headlong flight into...
...headlong sweep of Christianity from its founding down to the present day was depicted in a cunning mosaic of statistics last week in the American Lutheran by Dr. George Linn Kieffer. A scholarly, bespectacled Lutheran who is president of the Association of Religious Statisticians of America and author of an annual church membership survey for the Christian Herald, Dr. Kieffer pieced together censuses and researches as follows...
...constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...