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...doctor who offered a sure-cure for cancer would be required by sensible people to present scientific credentials. Or. a doctor who predicted that the world was doomed soon to perish from cancer would be required by sensible people to present scientific credentials...
...Norman Hezekiah Davis. U. S. arms delegate and Hoover Man-about-Europe. Arriving in Manhattan on the Manhattan last week Delegate Davis announced: "There's no doubt that the world is in a terrible fix. The nations seem to realize that if they don't want to perish separately they must get together." Speeding to Washington Mr. Davis spent 90 minutes reporting to President Hoover. Said he: "It's a great thing to get, Germany back into the disarmament conference. Actually it has prepared the ground, changed the atmosphere and made profitable work possible...
...Provided we can reach a practical solution, let us pass a sponge over the rest.' That is to say. 'Provided I can receive a dividend this year, never mind about the capital.' To this madness, Spain desires to say 'No!' The League Covenant will perish if we permit Chinese Manchuria to become Japanese Manchukuo...
...does not reveal the reason for the inclusion in the Harvard League of a plutocratic United States and communistic Russia. When one remembers this, and hears the midnight oily speeches of the delegations, trimmed up with their little flags, so like a church convention, it is not easy to perish the thought that the League may, at Harvard, be only a kiss for Cinderella. Still, it is pleasant to see the delegate from Siam make a salaum to the gentleman from Azerbaijan. . . In the crimson simplicity of the New Lecture Hall...
...will come as a distinct surprise that Tammany Hall has really surrendered to the enemy. Faced with a severe financial crisis, it has been forced to go to the bankers for aid. Without assistance the city cannot balance its budget and Tammany's organization must meet specific terms or perish; the bankers have demanded that long desired economical reform be put into effect. So it is that all the budget slashes and salary cuts which were called for by Mayor McKee and which were immediately nullified by the Tammany-controlled Board, will at last be realized. Nor will this work...