Word: stills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Republic, a law can be passed by popular referendum in the following steps: 1) A vote of 1/10th of the entire German electorate (4,000,000 ballots) assures the immediate consideration of the law by the Reichstag. 2) If the Reichstag refuses to pass the law, it may still be made effective by holding a second referendum in which the ballots of 50% of the electorate (20,000,000) are necessary for ratification. "Liberty Law." Because the Treaty of Versailles postulates Germany's sole War guilt and then lays upon her the burden of Reparations, some hot-headed...
...proclaim the restoration of King Amanullah. Came a great warrior shout of "Nadir is our King!"-a pointed suggestion which, according to Mme Viollis, "the Conqueror heroically resisted." "If Nadir doesn't become King, we shall all go away!" chorused the tribesmen, or words to that effect. Still the Conqueror held temptation at bay, but after some further shouting he was seen to bow his head. After profound meditation he spoke huskily: "Allah is my witness, I did not want to become King! But I am the servitor of the tribes of my country. Since the People designate...
...however, of Miss Yule's $100,000,000 was in cash; for the jute part of the fortune had been acquired by J. P. Morgan & Co., now most potent factor in world jute.* To big companies the Exchange means no revolution in marketing methods. Burlap and jute will still be bought chiefly from the same sources, the difference being that there will be a guide to prices, previously a matter of private negotiations, that prices will tend to be stabilized, and merchants can hedge in futures...
...Medical School. Most of the important pathologists in the U. S. have been his pupils as most of the important teachers of other branches of medicine have been theirs. Well nigh impossible it is to review the many accomplishments of Dr. Welch, to echo the gusto with which he still teaches. Suffice to report that in his doctorate cap and gown he resembles King Henry VIII in jolly mood, that he organized Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1918), and now its Department of the History of Medicine and its Medical Library. As last week he walked with...
...Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator, won the second prize ($1,000). His Bathers, Ile Adam, hot in color and thin in texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French painters (first prize, 1927, to Henri Matisse; first prize, 1928, to André Derain) were considerably puzzled by this award. Edward Bruce painted an Italian pear tree, leafless, in full blossom...