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...Scotland," declared the Major, "illegitimate births total 68.9 per thousand population, compared with 44 per thousand in all England. Illegitimate births in Scotland per thousand of unmarried women total 11.3 compared with 5.16 among unmarried women in England...
Although neither noise nor vibration interfered with passengers' enjoyment of the antics of James Cagney several thousand feet over the Alleghenies, Central Airlines does not plan to install cinema-chinery in its planes regularly until some manufacturer produces specially-designed equipment. First sound motion picture in the air was not Devil Dogs of the Air but Baboona, the Martin Johnson film which Eastern Air Lines showed bigwigs month ago in a Douglas a mile over Manhattan. Baboona, a regular 35-mm. film, will be shown again over Chicago this week in a TWAirliner...
Over fifty thousand persons, many of them school children from the Boston district, have visited the archaeological and ethnological exhibits in the Peabody Museum of Harvard University in the past year, Donald Scott, Director, says in his annual report...
...violating an obsolete statute of the post-Civil War period. His only crime was the possession of literature advocating the acquittal of the Scottsboro prisoners. He is now touring the country in an effort to raise funds for the appeal of his case before the Supreme Court. Fifteen thousand dollars bail has been provided for him by the International Labor Defense, pending his trial...
Emphasizing the vital personal character of religion, one of the speaking teams of the Oxford Group movement addressed a large crowd at the Continental Hotel yesterday evening. Another meeting was also held Tuesday evening, and was attended by more than a thousand Cantabridgians...