Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settled with his party in a suite at the fashionable St. Francis Hotel, with two Rolls-Royces at his beck and adjoining rooms for the newspaper boys, Mayor Walker pondered the uncomfortable predicament in which he had placed his friend Sunny Jim. If the Governor should pardon Thomas Mooney after 15 years in jail, people could say that it took the interference of a gaudy outsider to bring justice into the golden State. If he decided not to pardon him, the same people could say that the Governor had been frightened out of seeing justice done because of the bitter...
...Rumanian babes have been given the vaccine. The Hygiene Commission of the League of Nations has declared BCG harmless. But many bacteriologists have continued to insist that the live germs cause rather than prevent tuberculosis. Last week both sides in the controversy looked toward Lübeck for substantiation of their claims...
...State commission investigated the 76 deaths at Lübeck, held they were due to "omission of laboratory precautions" in preparing the vaccine. At the trial Professor Georg Deycke, director of the Lübeck municipal hospital, sought to take all the blame. He said his belief in the usefulness of BCG was "a scientific error," declared subsequent tests had convinced him that the vaccine was a perfect means of introducing tuberculosis into the bodies of the vaccinated children. Weeping, he begged that the other three defendants be freed, said the judges need feel no scruples in taking his life...
...Ernst Alstaedt, chief of Lübeck's board of health, who sanctioned use of the vaccine, promptly denied that it was harmful. Other witnesses testified that the labels sometimes slipped off the cultures and that they might have been put back on the wrong containers. This the accused nurse, Anna Schütze, denied. Professor Wilhelm Kolle, a witness, lost his patience, shouted: "These attacks against Dr. Calmette are abominable! It is impossible for me not to protest, because these accusations are brought against a savant of spotless reputation but who happens to be a Frenchman...
Last week parents of the dead Lübeck children, who had attended every session of court, grew weary of arguments. As a lawyer attempted to defend the Calmette vaccine they filled the courtroom with shouts, temporarily broke up the trial...