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Most natives are total abstainers. For Moslems drinking is forbidden by edicts of the Prophet, and while it is not specifically banned for Hindus, it is regarded as immoral, disrespectful to age and to women. Supported by most of the population, the Indian National Congress Party had no difficulty last year in initiating prohibition experimentally in districts of four provinces of British India, especially after Mahatma Gandhi declared that British India could be dry in three years, that prohibition would be one of the Congress' first proofs of its ability to rule India. On moral grounds wets...
...Aging Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...
...West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...
...figures on national income for the first five months of calendar 1939: it showed national income running at the rate of $65.4 billions, only 3% above the rate of 1938. Nor did the Department of Labor uphold the Secretary of the Treasury's inner circle reputation as a prophet when it announced that factory employment for May was off 1.1 points more than seasonally (to 90.1 on its index). Many a U. S. businessman saw a patch of blue sky early in May, when there was a flurry in steel (TIME, May 22), but last week it seemed only...
When the romance begins to wane, when Monk begins brooding over love's "bitter mystery," then not even the most extravagant prophet could anticipate the window-rattling violence and savagery of these lovers' quarrels, the crazed sadism of Monk's accusations, or the deadly criticism that Mrs. Jack shoots back. Because she always comes back for more, however, because they make up from time to time and declare "Was there ever love like ours?" it is a long time before the final parting. Near the end Monk makes his bitterest accusation: "I've lost my squeal...