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...Borges de Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials and their families were invited, but thousands swarmed outside Tiradentes Palace in the rain while President Vargas stood before the rostrum and gave his oath to uphold his new constitution for the next four years. Most novel provision of this 44-page opus compels each Minister of the Brazilian Government to provide himself with a "brain trust" of technical experts. On this point the new constitution reads: "It is forbidden to any Minister to take...
Walter Connolly's first venture into cinema (The Soldier's Oath, with William Farnum, in 1917) satisfied him so little that he refused to make another picture for 15 years. Columbia offered him a contract which permits him to act in plays when he chooses. Since 1932 he has appeared in 13 pictures, established himself as one of the three or four actors of his generation capable of carrying a production. He was born in 1888 in Cincinnati where his father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin...
...Muir). Its father (Warren William) is the husband of Mary's best friend, Dr. Monica (Kay Francis). While attending the mother, Dr. Monica learns of its parentage from Mary Hathaway's hysterical efforts to telephone the father. For a moment, Dr. Monica proposes to disregard the Hippocratic Oath. The arguments of another friend, present as a spectator, induce her to finish the delivery. Small illegitimate Hathaway gets better breaks than her close relatives. Her mother flies an airplane out to sea for a glamorous suicide. Dr. Monica and her husband, who is still ignorant that...
...make public their findings as to the causes of individual disasters. Last week that system was changed when President Roosevelt approved an amendment to the Air Commerce Act of 1926, giving the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce power to hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel testimony under oath. In case of serious or fatal injury, publication of the Department's findings is made mandatory...
...find that she denied the ministrations of a medical practitioner, through a stubborn belief in the efficiency of prayer by a paid healer, and that her recovery was retarded thereby, you would be unfair to your oath if you charged Cisler with these injuries. If she claimed that there is no pain and that the way of relief is through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy you cannot make Cisler...