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...single factor such as the buying of gold bullion. The' experiment being tried in 'endeavoring to regulate gold prices is not for a few weeks but for a relatively long period certainly until well after Congress ha reconvened, and perhaps the President will wish even then not to interrupt who will have begun to be an exchange stabilization fund for the American govern ment analogous to that established by Great Britain...
Meanwhile the League's invitation reached the U. S. State Department in time to interrupt a friendly conference between outgoing Statesman Stimson and incoming Statesman Hull. Because the League asked a reply as soon as possible, the State Department obliged promptly with something which "did not sound as if it had been written by Mr. Stimson" according to officials of Japan's Foreign Office next day. Possibly written in part by Mr. Hull (though signed by Mr. Stimson) the State Department's cautious reply expressed "substantial accord" with the League's version of facts in Manchuria...
Human Hybrids-Howell S. England of Detroit told the unbelieving A. A. A. S. that, secreted in Russian Turkestan where people with sensibilities cannot interrupt them, Dr. Elie Ivanoff and two other Russian biologists are trying to cross humans and apes by artificially impregnating female chimpanzees. "At any time we may learn that he has produced the first hybrid," cried Howell S. England...
...statements of Technocracy's solution tor technological unemployment This was partly because Technocrat Scott threw about himself an air of scientific impersonality and profundity. Technocracy was an idea; he was its intelligence; his person and personality did not matter; listen and understand, if you can, but do not interrupt or pry into Howard Scott...
...first husband decided she looked like a pig, drank himself into a toper's grave. Her second husband was a humorous, bumbling fraud who preached a little (Carry used to interrupt his sermons), occasionally printed a newspaper, claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog...