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...illustrated lecture last night before 25 members of the Harvard Ornithological Club, meeting in Adams House. Lawrence B. Fletcher, Secretary of the Northeastern Bird Banking Association, discussed the economic value of birds, the desirability of bird banding, and the lives of the humming bird and the tern...
...technically behind the Comintern-these two transparent subterfuges nicely balancing each other. Last week in Rome, while Moscow was celebrating Bolshevism's 20th birthday as a State (see above), a peculiar ceremony was performed. It did not suit II Duce simply to bring Italy into the anti-Comin-tern Pact of Germany and Japan under the clause which permits any country to join them. If Italy was going to join she had to have something special, and this was what last week Premier Mussolini insisted upon...
Boss Tom Pendergast, having been ill for more than five months, announced that he was turning over control of his organization to his nephew James who had done so well during the campaign as boss pro tern (TIME, Dec. 14). A banquet was given for Fred Bellemere, chairman of Kansas City's election board and he was mentioned as a sure-fire future prospect for Governor. Then suddenly in mid-December Judge Reeves impaneled a grand jury of 20 men. Instead of saying, "Everybody is doing it, let it pass," he said to them...
...grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan's corpse was rapidly putrefying and could not be buried until a new ruler had been chosen, she secured the appointment of her husband Datu Umbra as Sultan pro tern. Meantime, datus (princes) of the Sulu islands had been advised by Grand Vizier Hadji Butu, ablest and best educated of the Moro patriarchs, to enthrone Datu Rajamuda, only surviving brother of the late Sultan...
Unlike active Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring of Des Moines, 1934-35 president of the A.M.A., who had a leg amputated many years ago, Dr. Mason will be unable to perform his presidential duties. Those continue pro tern on the conscientious shoulders of President James McLester, professor of nutrition at the University of Alabama...