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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Señor Paredes received a reply from Judge Lazarus: "I intend to be as straightforward with you as you have been considerate with me. Basing my conclusions on years of observation. I regret to say that there is probably no group in this city, proportionate to its members, that supplies us with more criminal business than the local Filipino colony. It is no compliment to the predominant race that most crimes committed by Filipinos have as background intimate relations with white girls. Jealousy between rivals for the affections of the same girl leads to assaults, knifings...
...Insular House of Representatives and one of the Islands' leading politicians. When Manuel Quezon became the first Philippine President, he made it plain that he would brook no rivals in political power. The once-powerful Speakership was reduced to an office of no importance, and able Señor Paredes reluctantly accepted the job of Commissioner in Washington...
...have partially anticipated the third question -how 90,000 German troops in German territory can advance the cause of peace was always served by the righting of an injustice. But if M. Francon feels that troops per se endanger peace, he must feet that France has been endangering it ever since the War, in defiance of the terms of her own Treaty of Versailles, and that in bringing up 300,000 re-enforcements, she has assumed the lion's share of the present crisis...
...spokesmen made it clear that the company was not going into the entertainment business or even into television per se. They wanted the line simply as a transmitting agency which they would lease to responsible televisors with no more attempt to discriminate or dictate than if it were a telephone service. They were willing to file complete reports of costs and work done but not of unprotected technical secrets. Heeding these representations, the Commission last fortnight issued a new and milder ruling which the company was happy to accept. Last week it was announced that production would be started...
People grow bald because follicles from which hair grows die or become stunted. A dead follicle can never be revived. A stunted one may be. Rarely does a scalp get so fouled with germs or fungus that follicles die and hair falls out. Despite hair tonic advertisements, dandruff, per se, does not cause baldness...