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...heart itself does not die beyond recall until Death has held it ten to 20 minutes Other way stations in the schedule ot Death according to Dr. Hyman: skeletal muscle two to four hours; stomach and intestines, six to ten hours; cartilage, ten to 24 hours; bone, 24 to 72 hours; skin (including sweat glands, hair follicles and nails), several days...
...spring of 1933, said he, an option on 90,000 of the 175,000 voting shares of New York Shipbuilding had been secured by Bernard ("Ben") C. Smith and Thomas E. Bragg. At the mention ot those two famed speculators, the Senators sat up and took notice-wondering audibly whether the rise in that stock from $3.25 to $22 in five months' time had anything to do with those weird gentlemen's operations. The tale went on: Speculators Bragg & Smith came to Mr. Manning to ask whether Mr. Cord would take a half interest in the majority stock...
...operate"-for ten years. Scared were the satellites of trance (Poland Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) who feared their protectrice was about make some sort of deal with Germany behind their backs. To calm the satellites clauses were inserted bringing action under the Four-Power Pact "within the framework ot the League of Nations, to which they are parties. German withdrawal from the League put the Pact on ice but it has served to jar Europe into action. Poland, suspicious as a scorned lover hastily made a ten-year pact with Germany behind the back of France and ever since hard...
...face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish a precedent that may in future make all contracts into scraps of paper to be blown hither & thither by any political wind. But if the Court should decide to uphold the gold clauses, the reaction ot the country against the Court would be indeed serious. In the heat of partisanship a Constitutional Amendment might be passed that would vitally impair the Court's usefulness. The Justices were not ignorant of these facts. But their job is to follow the law as they...
...Riddell accompanied the British mission headed by Foreign Secretary Balfour. Elaborately disclaiming any "official" standing Lord Riddell acquired a room in the U. S. Navy Department's stucco building on the Mall, proceeded to "dope" the conference for U. S. newshawks twice a day. Even during the long periods ot closed sessions, Lord Riddell's "unofficial" well of information, always extremely accurate, never went dry. His presence was a Godsend to correspondents who had to turn out daily conference stories whether the sessions were closed or open. That the world was flooded with press stories which did Great Britain...