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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting the old age pension limit from 65 to 150 years; to abolish all relief projects "so the men can go back to work...
...wine cellar swiftly transformed into a cemented and sandbagged refuge against bombs, Viscount Runciman took off for London, but Viscountess Runciman stayed on to keep Czechoslovaks from feeling that Britain was deserting them. Over the weekend non-Nazi Sudeten Germans, previously cowed by Storm Troops, felt safe enough to sign up by thousands in the Sudeten Social Democratic Party. To check this trend, Sudeten Nazi No. 2 Ernst Kundt manifestoed Saturday to Nazis: "Remain within yourselves what you always were ! Keep waiting until Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister Chamberlain have completed their fateful conversations. Keep your iron nerves...
When St. Ambrose opened this fall he had distributed 25 charters covering more than 500 members. For a 50? fee members receive an authorized R. C. T. emblem as a visible roadside high-sign, and a certified identification card bearing on the reverse a legal waiver releasing any motorist kind enough to offer a lift from liability in case of accident. Encouraged by the Roman Catholic faculty at St. Ambrose, Thumber Fiese plans to enlist 800 more colleges. Says he: "We believe our fundamental idea is sound and . . . that our organization will benefit society. ... I have a girl friend...
...syringe a gynecologist introduces a few drops of semen directly into the cervical canal, lower part of the uterus. Best time for artificial insemination is the fertile period occurring from ten days to two weeks after menstruation begins. More complicated are the legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel Seymour and Alfred Koerner of Manhattan...
Grand Tour. They have, in fact, made the grand tour of Hollywood-Warner Bros., Paramount, United Artists, MGM. This assortment of alliances comes from their disliking to sign for more than a one-picture contract. Of their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual...