The Reference Shelf, Volumen5,Tema 1

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H.W. Wilson, 1927 - 154 páginas
 

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Página 100 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 31 - Cabinet, is the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ie a gang of snooty ecclesiastics, committed unanimously to the doctrines that Christ should have been jailed for the business at Cana, that God sent she-bears to "tare" forty-two little children because they had made fun of Elisha's bald head, and that Jonah swallowed the whale?
Página 38 - Every corporation or labor organization which makes any contribution or expenditure in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $5,000; and every officer or director of any corporation, or officer of any labor organization, who consents to any contribution or expenditure...
Página 49 - Whereas, We believe that the use of alcohol is detrimental to the human economy, and whereas its use in therapeutics as a tonic or stimulant, or for food has no scientific value, therefore Be it resolved, That the American Medical Association is opposed to the use of alcohol as a beverage; and Be it further resolved, That the use of alcohol as a therapeutic agent should be further discouraged.
Página 133 - Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged. By it no orphans starving, no widows weeping. By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest ; even the...
Página 38 - ... in connection with any election at which Presidential and Vice Presidential electors or a Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident commissioner to Congress are to be voted for...
Página 38 - It is unlawful for any national bank, or any corporation organized by authority of any law of Congress, to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, or for any corporation whatever, or any labor organization to make a contribution or expenditure in...
Página 52 - It is doubtless the great engine of the circulation, but it has been clearly shown by Schiff and numerous other physiologists that the movement of the blood is greatly aided by a rhythmic action of the small vessels, both arterioles and capillaries.
Página 148 - ... of measurement. Nor does the Department of Commerce lay claim to credit for the great progress that has been made, save as we may have helped to organize a definite public movement. That movement is the result of a realization by every group — business men, industrial leaders, engineers, and workers — of the fundamental importance of this business of waste elimination. In...
Página 52 - The full bounding pulse usually produced by the administration of an ounce or two of brandy properly diluted, gives the impression of an increased vigor of heart action ; but it is only necessary to determine the blood pressure by means of a RivaRocci instrument, or Gaertner's tonometer, to discover that the blood pressure is lowered instead of raised.

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