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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictators toward childbearing, a subject on which Mussolini's semi-official newsorgan Giornale d'ltalia spoke out last week, is enough to make many women fear dictatorships. Declared Giornale d'ltalia: "Italians must not drink less wine lest there be a corresponding decrease in the birth rate. Wine is a moderately exciting beverage which creates happy abandonment that favors accentuation of the phenomena essential to vitality. The birth rate is lowest in countries where wine is not the national drink...
...long before the appearance of the autobiographical 25th anniversary report. Estimator was another ex-Lampoon wit, Humorist Robert Charles Benchley,* who proceeded to set down 1912's "Sobering Statistics": "In 25 years, the Class of 1912 has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one Bishop of Albania who later became Prime Minister.-j-"Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda.** "We have only one Weather Man who advocates the 'frontal method' (three dimensions) over the 'surface method' (two dimensions). "In all these years, only one member...
...this age of practicality, by some genuinely practical instruction. Scholarly training, no matter how it shun theory, can hardly substitute for that. The scheme of bringing part of Washington here, instead of sending the students to Washington, may indeed make the graduates acceptable to their government. At any rate, the two rival schemes will continue side by side for some time to come, and the success of the two can be compared. As the greater system will probably ultimately absorb the smaller, the scheme proven the more efficient can be accepted by it as the final solution...
Days in Court will be many indeed, hearings on a two-per-week basis have been scheduled into April, providing for "days in court" for 275 claimants. At that rate it will take 15 years to hear the "heirs." To make this unlikely the court has distributed a complicated questionnaire to fill out which asks for such information as the full name and place of marriage of the one of Henrietta Garrett's 16 great -great -grandparents through which the claimant's relationship to her is asserted. Already 280 "common ancestors" have been put forward...
...miles by airplane, elephant, train, car, horse to gather his impressions. At the outset he confessed himself stumped by India's size (350,000,000 pop.), unwilling to guess the answers to such problems as India's 24,000 births a day (world's highest birth rate, which has increased the population, in spite of the world's highest death rate, 34,000,000 in the last decade), five or six million beggars, 24½ million "entirely superfluous cattle, costing ?132,000,000 annually-a staggering sum ... to pay for their veneration of cows." In spite...