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...wasp was little Huey Long. He dictated a succinct reply: "I have the honor to decline your demands in toto." Then he ordered out the Baton Rouge unit of the National Guard and a detachment of highway police, directed them to guard the Capitol and executive mansion "to prevent Cyr from seizing them." Next he hopped into a State automobile and roared off for the capital...
Mexico's anti-Chinese crusade is but one phase of widespread antipathy to foreigners. An anti-Semitic movement has been going on for some time. In last week's Nation, Correspondent Anita Brenner published a succinct summary of the Jewish situation. Jews were invited by President Calles in 1924 to enter the country, colonize, farm, keep shops. The agricultural program proved unfeasible, but by 1927 there were nearly 20,000 Semites in Mexico, 75% of them concentrated about Mexico City. They peddled, drove taxis, set up small businesses, shrewdly undersold easy-going native merchants. Last spring the National...
...billiard or pool player or a bowler better than most people can get an understanding of an important physical observation, reported last week by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist. Sir Chandrasekhara was scientifically succinct in his announcement. Very few details reached Europe or the Americas. But, according to what he has done in the past and according to the corroborative work of other students, this, simply, is what he said...
...want both personally as one holding Dr. Ewing in very high regard, and as Director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to thank you most sincerely for the very intelligent, succinct, accurate and safe publicity which you have given to the fight against cancer in your recent issue of TIME. I know of no single item of voluntary publicity appearing in a periodical that has made quite such a definite appeal to me. The question is such a difficult one and requires so much repetition of facts in order to educate the public that the service which...
...Texas oil fields, went prospecting along the Turko-Irak frontier. He found unmistakable traces of oil on Turkish territory not far from the British-owned Mosul oil fields of Irak. It is not impossible that Turkish wells on the new oil fields might. if driven, drain Mosul wells dry.* Succinct was a message from Angora last week...