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...have none of the qualifications which would make me a successful dictator...
...counting on only 22, with ten from Ohio where Republicans anticipate defeating Governor Davey. The Committee expects eight new Congressmen from the corn & wheat belt, one or two from the Rocky Mountain States and two on the West Coast, from Oregon and Washington, where the Gallup Poll gave them none. Another item on the G. O. P.'s curiously negative balance sheet is of course the noisy Democratic split in Pennsylvania (see p. 16). Hoping then for a sure gain of 13, Joe Martin and his committee were last week inclined to revise their estimates upward...
...beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than 1,500. There are no jails. Three green-suited gendarmes keep order. The inhabitants of the mountainous, comic-opera principality are largely cattle raisers, farmers. Chief means of transport is the bicycle and the streets of the sleepy little valley towns are usually dotted...
...like tooting Paris taxi drivers, are in a perpetual dither. With less than half New York City's 7,400,000 population, Paris tries to support 120 newspapers to New York City's 24. Most of the Parisian papers are party organs, constantly in hot financial water. None is making money on its journalistic merits alone. The thriving Paris Soir is owned by Billionaire Henri Beghin, French beet sugar and paper tycoon, and by Textile Tycoon Jean Prouvost. The dull Temps is the handmaiden of the heavy industries. Still another few, like Communist Humanite have their worrying done...
...readiness for the project was due to a prickly dissatisfaction with the existing popularizations of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These have appeared in a steady stream since-to his complete bewilderment-his newspaper fame flowered in the 1920s. It is noteworthy that Einstein's book contains none of the mystical discursions of Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans. The cast of characters in The Evolution of Physics does not include...