Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were of Jewish blood: Alf Landon, William Allen White Mrs. Cordell Hull...
Lieut. General Robert H. Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, mustered 15,000 troops, 7.300 policemen, and 700 aviators to counter the expected Jewish reaction. Jews have spilled little blood in retaliation for Arab terrorism, but the British "betrayal" made many of them fighting mad. Indignant manifestoes were loudly cheered at mass meetings: "Palestine Jewry declares this betrayal policy will never materialize. Palestine Jewry will fight it with all its forces." In Jerusalem 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones battled club-swinging police. Toll: 135 Jews and five constables injured; one constable killed. Most Jews regretted the actions...
...thing is absolutely certain and that is that the Syracuse crew will be out for blood as far as Cornell is concerned, and there is every reason to believe that the Orangemen will stay well up in the race. In fact a finish with all three beats within the length of a shell is quite possible...
Long, skinny necks and scrawny chests have long been noted as physical characteristics of epileptics. Many epileptics also have small hearts and underdeveloped blood vessels. But until Drs. Temple Sedgwick Fay and Michael Scott of Philadelphia's Temple University began to study these "grotesque deviations" no physician had ever thought of correlating epileptic convulsions with general physical development. Last week, at the Chicago meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Drs. Fay and Scott reported a brilliant contribution to the baffling problem of epilepsy...
Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet...