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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abolished "gum shoe" squad-special police largely engaged in reporting on other police-exiled its head to duty in Long Island City...
Colorado. "Too much talking has ruined politicians," says Colorado's newly-elected Governor William H. Adams. During his campaign he made one speech three minutes long and issued one statement. For 47 years an officeholder, he has never been defeated, never driven an automobile, never played golf. A Democrat, he carried Colorado by 99,000 votes despite a Hoover majority...
Filial piety has been the immemorial duty of Chinese sons, and celibacy that of widows. Since the high and far off time of Confucius (550-478 B.C.) and long before, this has been so. But last week the kinetic, iconoclastic new Nationalist Government issued a proclamation shattering to Chinese morals. Acts of filial piety were declared to be "no longer meritorious but unworthy," and celibate widows were bidden to eschew the "outworn mandate of mere superstition...
...views on marriage have made newspaper copy from time to time, since the publication in 1913 of his book, Marriage and Divorce. Marriage, he contended, must be regarded as a human institution, a social form to be used so long as it is useful, and to be abolished when abolition is wise. Essentially marriage is a sex matter, but the test of a true marriage is "spiritualization of the physical instinct of sex attraction." He approved of divorce whenever affection has dwindled...
Preserved Sloth. Perhaps 1,000,000 years ago, certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully...