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...Russell Jr. had announced that a majority of his farmers favored it. Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas had sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon the growing of cotton." His points: 1) The trouble with...
...flow of more real French than usual. Eight out of ten natives of Quebec Province and of Montreal speak a provincial French patois, su perficially proud that their French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate French-Canadian feeling for things French so that they wall prefer...
...which gushed sudden wealth into eastern Texas last winter (TIME, Feb.2), caused horror and tragedy there last week. Near Gladewater, Sinclair Oil Company's No. I Cole well was brought in. Instantly the null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then...
Said the Commission: "In making this statement nothing new is added to the present law of the Church. . . . The present Canon 43 and the Marriage Service of the Church both assume that marriage may be declared null and void. . . . The door for remarriage of divorced persons is by no means thrown wide open. . . . The Commission . . . considers this proposed canon as only tentative, and desires to give it the widest possible publicity for the purpose of invoking discussion and criticism. . . ." Birth Control- As did the Lambeth Conference (Anglican, Episcopal) last year and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...
...Wabash Avenue scene of circus in Chicago before the handsome greystone stadium was built on Madison Street. To teach John Ringling a lesson, young President Strotz announced that his own Great European Olympia Circus, which he last week had almost in readiness, would perform daily at the Stadium for null admissions on the same days (April 4 to 19) that the Sells-Floto show is in town charging 50?-to-$3, plus an extra week...