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...urchins who will never be privileged to use its libraries and laboratories. Mr. Mahoney's Recreation Division is empowered by law to supply workers to private playgrounds with the sanction of the owner. A step in this direction was made last week when the University allowed a worker to superintend the winter sports on the ground around the Observatory. But this was a trifling concession. Since Harvard closed the Divinity School grounds some years ago, the firm of John P. Squire & Co. has far surpassed it in opening lands to local children...
...bridge of a steam tanker Captain Rieber sailed into Texaco in 1905, the company having bought the vessel he commanded. For four years he sailed for Texaco, was brought ashore to superintend the conversion of a peach orchard in Bayonne, N. J. into a great Texaco terminal. Today such a job would probably be given to a trained engineer. At that time it was given to Captain Rieber because he had horse sense, a command of men and the driving force of a triple-expansion engine...
...Weston State Hospital last week Dr. John Edward Offner, the wise superintend ent, quickly abandoned the theory that sexual stirrings in adolescent Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second...
...great Army, Navy and Air Force leaders, who frankly despise Japanese politicians and businessmen, assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated-with themselves more strongly represented than ever before. Everyone else assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated. Any notion that Premier Okada. having barely escaped assassination, should superintend the prosecution, conviction and execution of the clean young Boys was far from Japanese thoughts...
...Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them on to victory. Major Douglas last week was still technically under contract to the Government of Alberta and Messiah Aberhart has said, "Though we do not see eye to eye in all respects, Major Douglas will be invited to superintend in Alberta the inauguration and ad ministration of Social Credit with its three basic principles...