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Last week, in Washington, Gracie Hall Roosevelt died at 50, from a chronic liver ailment. From his big sister, who had tried to look after him ever since they were orphaned, he received the kind of tribute which might make any man glad that he had lived. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt loved her brother dearly. At dawn one morning she left his bedside, rode back to the White House, wrote this moving obituary for her syndicated column...
...Chronic copper poisoning was blamed by Dr. Mallory for causing wide varieties of heart, liver, and kidney trouble and even diabetes. By his discoveries in this field, he acquitted brews from the blame of causing certain diseases for which the copper in kettles and percolators are actually to blame...
...heavy a crop on the crowded fields of Asia's close-packed millions, no other food so satisfies their taste. The most populous countries of East Asia (China, Japan, Java), for all their unceasing efforts, are barely self-sufficient in normal times. China has a slight but chronic deficit. Three other Asiatic countries (Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China) produce almost the entire world's supply of commercially exported rice. Some years they export as much as 6,000,000 tons among them to such countries as India, Malaya, Cuba, France...
With plenty of troubles of her own, Bolivia has been a favorite field for Nazi intrigue. Since most of her food is imported, there is a chronic food shortage, a steadily rising cost of living. And, partly as a legacy from her dictator regimes, her political scene is a labyrinth of splinter parties...
...super Aryan, Adolf Hitler, could have had such ancestors. Editors of Nazi scientific papers announced that there was no room for the paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective argument against evolution was the heavy hint that advocacy of "neo-Darwinism" made a German politically suspect...