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Confused and tumultuous was the campaign preceding the vote (TIME, April 7). For purposes of practical politics a Governor of Pennsylvania outranks a Senator from Pennsylvania, because a Governor controls State patronage on which political machines subsist, whereas a Senator only ornaments and dignifies the group that puts him into office. No man may call himself State Boss unless he has the No. 1 official at Harrisburg under his thumb. In an attempt to become Boss, Mr. Vare, overlord of Philadelphia, put up Francis Shunk Brown for Governor, his chief attorney in his futile fight for a Senate seat (TIME...
...months deliberation that Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, Arctic explorers, had not harmed themselves by living on an all-meat diet for one year and ten days. Said the physicians: "In general, white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency." Said Meat-Eater Stefansson: "I am wide awake and am more aggressive in my work than I was before I started this test. . . . They [the vegetarians] are like religious fa natics. Eating vegetables and fruits...
...many of the students in College subsist either upon monthly allowances or some form of dividend, and as most of these are received upon the first of every month, they arrive just too late to be of service in settling the problem of the term bill. It is therefore suggested that it would be a great convenience to a good many undergraduates if the authorities in Lehman Hall could afford to extend the limit on term bills for a day or two past the first of the month...
...first he tried to subsist for 47 days on sea water, two sips a day, which he stole down the mountain to get. "It contains minerals," he explained. But his stomach had troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about his neck. Then he had hanged himself by a thong under his armpits, but the thong broke and he fractured his ankle. Then he buried himself to the waist in earth. Faint though he was, God still would not come. That taught him humility...
...health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency...