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Last week M. Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...
Ninety-six boys entered the University with the class of 1929 from Boston Latin, a quota of almost one-tenth the total number of the entering class. The weighted average, based on the score made by the seven highest candidates from Boston Latin, was 89.12 per cent. Taft School, of Watertown, Connecticut, was second with a weighted average of 88.35 per cent. Only two members of the Taft team, however, entered Harvard this fall...
...When we moved from Nebraska, we gave our home, valued by us at $50,000 and by those who received it at more than $75,000, to the Methodist* Church for a hospital. The value of that gift alone was more than one-tenth of all the profits I ever have received from real estate...
Guns can hit airplanes. The Navy Department, last week, issued a re port on 42 practices against towed aerial targets, showed that 20 times the simulated bird-of-war had been caught by anti-aircraft fire. The targets, for physical reasons, were only one-tenth the size of a bombing plane and were flown at altitudes of 4,000 and 5,000 feet. Under these circumstances, the results were deemed highly satisfactory...
Like their colleagues overseas and on the same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...