Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left side, ended his nationwide speaking tour for the League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President: "Which way, Senator...
Month ago the estimated number of Spanish refugees on French soil was 380,000. Last week French Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut revised the estimate upward to 450,000. Moreover, far from decreasing, the refugee population was steadily increasing. Hundreds were still slipping over the Catalan border. The Loyalist Navy's surrender in French Africa last week brought 4,000 more...
Next week the Pasteur Institute will celebrate its soth anniversary. President Albert Lebrun of France will attend the ceremonies, and a thousand scientists from all over the world will meet to honor Pasteur and the work of the Institute. All will recall Pasteur's speech at the opening of the institute. "Two opposing laws seem to me now in contest," he said. "The one, a law of blood and death . . . the other, a law of peace, work and health. . . . Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows." These words seem very fresh to Institute scientists, for they...
...world has been guided by the example of the Pasteur Institute. And no single laboratory in the world has been responsible for so many bacteriological discoveries, largely directly applicable to preventive medicine. Among the achievements of the Institute are development of a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Alphonse Guérin in 1921,* Emile Roux's and Alexandre Yersin's epoch-making work on the diphtheria bacillus, the typhus discoveries of Nobelman Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, the syphilis and encephalitis investigations of Constantin Levaditi...
...West of Broadway" is a pleasant and often delightful little show; it importance is negligible but its flavor is lasting and Ruth Chatterton's acting and Albert Lewis's production work are largely responsible. The story is about an actor and actress who have teamed together for some ten years, at the end of which they give their farewell performance and move to Iowa, Mother Nature, and disaffection...