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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics and Socialists which toppled after exactly one week. King Leopold, who is said to feel that something old and yet new in the world-autocracy-might not be bad for Belgium, this week stepped in with a firm hand. He dissolved Parliament, ordered new elections...
...measles is a virus disease, is now working on a measles serum, recently developed a new modern type of smallpox vaccination. He works in the laboratory of the late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed...
...drunkard's grave by his mother's prayers. Successful thereafter as an automobile salesman (they called him "Car-a-Day" Cadle), owner of a chain of shoe-repairing shops and fruit juice stands in Indianapolis, he got more pious all the time. In 1921 he built Cadle Tabernacle, a large Spanish-style building, in which he took to preaching...
...Simeon to get $600,000 for spending money has for the past two years been employed as editorial director of his own newspapers, and last year his salary from the Hearst Consolidated papers was cut from $500,000 to $100,000. No longer ruler of the empire he built, Hearst has only two desires concerning it: 1) to have some of it survive him; 2) to keep his job. Nearing 76, the man who was the most spectacular publisher and spendthrift of his time wants to die a newspaperman...
...spent money as few princes ever dared to do. He ensconced himself in San Simeon with a zoo, bought St. Donat's castle in Wales, built an elaborate Hollywood publicity machine to glorify Marion Davies, indulged himself insatiably in the purchase of art treasures until he had spent $35,000,000 for what could have been bought for about $15,000,000. For money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry...