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...Guard' delegation, let them sit on the platform." The debate that then began was broken off for supper, was resumed and continued bitterly until 2 a. m. When the meeting broke up the issue was still undecided. After the delegates had slept on it, they were no nearer agreement. Someone struck up the Internationale and the delegates rose and sang. David Lasser, head of the Socialist-Communist Workers Alliance (union of unemployed) shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science. The two Rightists were not standing. A howl...
Last week Islam moved nearer the united front it has not enjoyed since the 13th Century, when the leader of the new Pan-Arab movement, Saudi Arabia's tall, wise, Mohammedan Warrior-King Ibn Saud, patched up his diplomatic and religious quarrels with the Government of Mohammedan Egypt...
...deaths reported as infections are due to abortions. Every day in the U. S. at least three women die from abortion. Dr. [Frederick Joseph] Taussig told me that he guessed there are 700,000 abortions a year in the country [TIME, March 16]. My own hazarded estimation is nearer two million. Abortion, that is, the average criminal abortion, is more dangerous than having the baby. Instead of condoning abortion we should give people better methods of birth control...
Their calculations at present indicate for the body an "open parabolic" course around the sun, which apparently never gets nearer the solar star than 93,000,000 miles or the distance from earth...
...important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed imminent. To be nearer this last badge of authority left him, Haile Selassie was prepared to leave Jerusalem soon for London, possibly make a dash for Geneva later in the spring for a dramatic appearance before the League of Nations...