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Resigned. Chaim Weizmann, 45, English industrial chemist; as president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency; because Great Britain last week decided to inhibit further Jewish immigration into Palestine and the buying of Palestine lands by Jews. He hinted that headquarters of both organizations would be moved from England...
Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...
...right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...
Acting therefore under the law of this Church and by the authority vested in me as Bishop of this diocese, I hereby inhibit you from officiating or speaking in St. Mark's Parish or any other parish or mission in this diocese...
...society out of his usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license is of a type to stunt and inhibit progress by destroying the effectiveness of a definite number of human beings in each generation, it is the clear duty of the state to step in and protect society from a part of itself, if necessary by compulsion. Beyond all doubt this clear duty may be performed satisfactorily...