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...John Meehan and Samuel Blythe of Author Henri Bernstein's play The Claw. To give the plot pertinence in a presidential year, the scene is Washington instead of Paris, but Lionel Barrymore's role is the one he had in the play. He is Jefferson Keane, an eloquent and stubborn lawyer who gets himself into the Senate by bucking machine politics in Kansas...
...Jalapa the more Governor Adalberto Tejeda thought about the law the better he liked it. Rumors from Mexico City that he would kill it only made him more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented...
...subject. A feeling of failure or frustration motivated most of these cases. Impulsive panic sends many toward death. Warning signals are: "I am an empty shell," "I am guilty," "I am afraid of going crazy," "There is no hope for me," "It's no use going on." Stubborn personalities, who lack plasticity in their makeup, are susceptible to suicidal ideas. Suicide is apt to reduce the resistance to suicide among survivors or descendants...
Bananas & Diarrhea, There is a stubborn, debilitating form of diarrhea called celiac disease. It is most common in children under 5. They cannot digest sugars, starches or fats. Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas of Manhattan found that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available...
...lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage and the beast receives a whiplash. Two laconic old lions, Kazan and Nero, are at once the most recalcitrant and the most easily subdued...