Lab probes show lax enforcement of liquor laws in Calumet
The Indianapolis Times argues Congress should send a committee to Indiana to study prohibition enforcement amid election fraud, bootlegging, and official corruption in Calumet. It cites 1926 and 1928 frauds, immunity deals, and delayed grand jury actions as evidence of government failure.
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Calumet
Borah
Indiana
Lake Michigan
Washington
Burke
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The Nanking Gesture on Extraterritoriality
The Nanking edict to end extraterritorial privileges for foreigners may not bring swift change. China's weak, divided government contrasts with firm foreign powers. A gradual, conditional relinquishment through negotiation is likely as the practical path forward.
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Nanking
Shanghai
Washington
China
United States
Japan
Turkey
Remembering old time winter revels and skating parties
The author recalls bygone winters filled with community celebrations, hillside floods, bobbing rides, and river shinny on Eel river. Major McFaddin hosted annual Christmas skating parties with fires, food, and skates for all, contrasting with today’s quieter winter joy and changing amusements.
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Major McFaddin
Gladstone
There Is Justification for France’s Position in Naval Parley
M. E. Tracy argues the French note shows careful thought on disarmament. He contends critics misread it as a bargaining tactic and notes France plainly states its views, challenging the conference planners and exposing their own weaknesses.
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Hatever
New York
Washington
France and US clash over disarmament and League role
The piece argues France favors a joint air land and naval disarmament approach while the United States, not in the League, pushes for conferences and five power naval parity. It warns against piecemeal methods and stresses open negotiation to avert future war.
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England
Mediterranean
France
Italy
Spain
Gibraltar
League of Nations
Waldo and Lenore Ulric in The Right Kind of a Man
The text notes Lenore Ulric sings The Right Kind of a Man in a picture and answers several Q A style items. It mentions a failed answered bill on civil service retirement annuities and the Marine Corps age requirements.
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Lenore Ulric
Congress
President Coolidge
Diseases that Move From Animals to Humans This Year
Dr Morris Fishbein reviews 1929 medical advances noting tularemia and undulant fever rising in humans and linked to animals. He cites pasteurization progress, animal disease control, and the narrowing gap between animal and human illnesses, with studies on weather related rheumatic changes and heredity in disease.
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Gois
Morris Fishbein
Uwar
Sourmal O. Lne
American Medical Association
United States
Japan
Germany
New York
Prose and Poetry Collected in a 1929 Times Column
A Times editor notes Heywood Brown's column mixes reviews and verse. Edward Anthony praises Joyce's Ulysses, while commentary criticizes Magistrate Sabbatino and praises Senator Borah. The piece reflects 1929 American literary and political tensions with wit and scrutiny.
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Edward Anthony
Vanity Fair
James Joyce
Ulysses
Anthony
Founding of the Society of Jesus and Gadsden Treaty Mention
The article recalls the December 30 1535 founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius Loyola and five companions to convert unbelievers and undertake a Jerusalem pilgrimage. It notes Jesuit influence on spiritual training and missions and marks today’s anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase treaty signing.
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Society of the Jesuits
Ignatius Loyola
Jerusalem
Loyola
Gadsen
Langmuir Receives Chandler Medal for Pioneering Work
Columbia University awards Dr. Irving Langmuir the Chandler Medal in recognition of his fusion of pure and applied science. Langmuir, GE associate director and ACS president, helped develop the gas filled tungsten lamp and high vacuum radio tube, advancing atomic theory and physical chemistry through Langmuir-Lewis and Bohr atom concepts.
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HE Chandler
Columbia University
Irving Langmuir
American Chemical Society
General Electric Company
Langmuir
United States
Nother
Dr. Langmuir
Lee de Forest
Brooklyn
University of Gottingen
Northwestern
Union
Columbia
Edinburgh
General Electric Laboratories
Schenectady
G. N. Lewis
University of California
Langmuir-Lewis
Niels Bohr
Copenhagen
Wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught
A compact proverb-like note cites Job and Shakespeare on human behavior and the influence of company. It implies that people reflect the traits around them and should choose companions carefully to avoid moral decay.
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Salvation Army
Chicago
Shakespeare
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