Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor. He refused and on the night of the Reichstag Fire he was swept up into prison by Nazi secret police without a second thought. Of all this the Nobel Peace Prize Committee was reminded this year by such people as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Romain Rolland, John Dewey, Albert Einstein...
...Francisco's Opera House one evening last week City Health Director Jacob Casson Geiger was summoned to a telephone, informed that one Albert Perry, 87, had just died of arsenic poisoning. That night Albert Perry's daughter Bessie, 53, also died. Next morning authorities found arsenic and sodium fluoride in the family's baking soda, traced the soda to a cut-rate department store run by one Joseph Rosenthal. Twenty-one other soda-users were discovered ill. Taking to the radio, Director Geiger warned San Franciscans to eat no more of the Rosenthal soda...
...Franciscans who had died of acute gastritis or kidney ailments within the fortnight. The puzzle was only partly solved when a barrel of pure sodium fluoride was found among the soda barrels in Rosenthal's store. As excitement reached fever pitch, the city toxicologist announced that Albert Perry and daughter had died of natural causes after all and a restaurant dishwasher swallowed a spoonful of soda which had not come from Rosenthal's, died in convulsions...
...California put in at Los Angeles last week with George Albert Boyog, 20-year-old enlisted man, fast in its brig and candidate for the title of the Navy's most original thinker. Reason: While the battleship was 150 miles out at sea, Gob Boyog had seized a gun, tried to hold up the paymaster...
...made the acquaintance of more than one thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there is desperate need of early diagnosis. Last week Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre reported a diagnostic technique for brain tumor which he deemed more sensitive than any other currently employed. Dr. Elsberg's way is to test the patient's sense of smell...