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...Marquess of Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...this, where there are low readings, the operation is postponed until by rest and the use of digitalis the patient's vasotone is raised beyond the danger point. When the readings are low, but immediate surgery is imperative the surgeon must expect trouble, employ speed, spare trauma and select the less severe operative procedure, such as draining an organ rather than removing...
...long abed, early morning worship being for a select few, the Vagabond too old and ragged a fellow for the company. Wistfully musing, till reconciled by the happy thought that religious democracy isn't Puritan and John Harvard was. Felt cheered in my heart, moreover, by prospect of a morning of speeches that even the Vagabond and his merry fellows could understand, after so promiscuous a display of forbidding wisdom...
Florida has more than its fair share of aged, penurious Yankees, of shiftless, malarial "Crackers." Hence of all States in the Union Florida is one of the most rabidly Townsendite. In its regular Democratic primary this year to select five Representatives, three of them turned out to be Townsendites. Nominated without opposition for the seat of the late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher was young, aggressive Claude Pepper, charter member of Townsend Club No. 1 of Tallahassee...
...Lord and Lady Brownlow and the most Bohemian of Britain's fashionable hostesses, Lady Cunard, the rich onetime Maude Alice Burke who married into the Cunard family and now calls herself "Emerald" Cunard. Her daughter Nancy is renowned for the handsome young Negro bucks she has introduced into select British circles...