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...head of a band of 104 settlers, sallow, thin-faced Ethan Allen, lineal descendant of the Green Mountain general of the Revolution, set out from Minneapolis to found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
...Cornish decided to try nursing yet another dog up the steep ascent from death. In his Berkeley, Calif, laboratory last fortnight the sallow young experimenter, with all the care and skill that experience had taught him, asphyxiated a fourth mongrel, revived it a half-hour after breathing had stopped, five minutes after its heart was stilled. Last week Dog No. 4 was rolling in delirium. But its blood pressure was rising, its pulse was nearly normal, and it was swallowing liquid food. Dr. Cornish reported that Dog No. 4's first week was vastly more encouraging than...
...Liberal Catholic Church in Australia. Long a student of Theosophy which at some points duplicates the occult tenets of Liberal Catholicism, Dr. Arundale has been a pedagog in India, a member of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, a Freeman of the City of London. He once tutored sallow Jeddu Krishnamurti whom Mrs. Besant hailed as a messiah. Year ago Dr. Arundale brought his pretty Hindu wife to the U. S. on a lecture tour. In stalled in office last week with much cere mony, he seemed unafraid of a fiasco such as befell Mrs. Besant when her Hindu messiah renounced...
...Sallow Oscar Chinn, a British subject, operates a small and grimy paddle-wheel steamer on the Congo. Trader Chinn's unlovely craft, which he claimed belongs to UNATRA, Union Nationale des Transports, a Belgian registered stock company, was halted by Belgian agents on its way down to Leopoldville. The Belgian Government had promulgated a new code of Congo regulations. The agents tried to apply them. But Trader Chinn had a sound practical sense of international law. He sued for damages...