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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that such mawkish sentimentality and lack of knowledge as expressed in this editorial comment is of any value to the nation. These Negroes are of a type that are better off "never born." They stand as "nuisance criminals or feeble-minded paupers in the body-politic...
...Simon Baruch (1840-1921), German-born Jew of Spanish ancestry, graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, was an assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. While in a Federal war prison he wrote a book on gunshot wounds. Excited by the hydrotherapeutic cures of Vienna's Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, Dr. Baruch dived into the subject, wrote two text books, got the first U. S. municipal bath houses established in Manhattan in 1901, was hired (1913) to evaluate the medicinal values of Saratoga Springs. The Mohawks venerated the mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled...
...general there are two kinds of magical practitioners: I) born wizards who kill from pure malignity or from appetite for human flesh; 2) occasional sorcerers who hurt only people they dislike and may even exert their force quite unconsciously. The first are exterminated instantly when caught. The second may escape punishment if they repair the damage. Thus when a woman in childbirth is having a difficult labor, her friends remember some quarrel with another woman who must now be causing the trouble, and this woman is requested to come and apply her saliva to the mother's body, thereby...
...Born in 1883, a onetime New York World reporter who got into the cinema business in 1914, Producer Sheehan was right-hand man to William Fox when that ambitious onetime garment worker was building up his topheavy theatre chain. When Fox was ousted, fat, jolly Producer Sheehan remained, on such good terms with Mr. Fox's enemies that, instead of losing his job as the studio's production head, he held it through two reorganizations. In 1932, when he had the nervous breakdown which is often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan...
...Born in Arpinum in 106 B.C., Cicero was a "new man," an upstart and outsider, belonging to the mercantile class that stood between the nobility and the commons. Thin, long-necked, timid, wearying friends by overpraising himself, Cicero made a poor hero. Academic Dr. Richards considers his lifelong hesitancy a sign of devotion to the Roman Republic. But readers may feel, on the strength of Dr. Richards' account, that Cicero simply could not make up his mind where he stood in the issue of democracy v. dictatorship. He had a yes-and-no policy on the soldiers' bonus...