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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...package of cigarets last week noted no change in the usual displays. But ticker-tape watchers suspected that something was wrong when nearly 200,000 shares of United Cigar stock were sold between $1.50 and 75¢ a share?most active issue of the day. Their suspicions were correct. United (primarily a holding company) and one of its real estate subsidiaries went into voluntary bankruptcy. Assets of the two concerns were listed at $18,200,000 against liabilities (including "possible...
...unidentified organ in his body which manufactures substances called reagins. Those reagins appear in the blood. Whenever a substance (pollen, food, etc.) appears which unites with a specific kind of reagin, that sets up a reaction in a "shock organ" (nose, eyes, bronchi, etc.). Whichever theory is correct, and proponents of neither claim certainty, allergists have progressed remarkably in treating the multitudinous manifestations of this peculiar sensitivity. By testing various substances on the patient's skin, allergists find just what he is sensitive to. From that they prepare an extract with which they very often can immunize...
...much annoyed by this as Mrs. Joy is not president of the Needlework Guild of America, she is not even president of one of its Branches, and I would like very much to have you correct this error. Mrs. Joy is a vice president of the Detroit, Mich. Branch of the Needlework Guild of America. Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr., the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is president of the Needlework Guild of America, and I am sure you will realize this is not a very pleasant kind of an error to come out in your magazine, for many...
...into her marrow that the one aim in life of every nice girl was to have & hold a Husband. Potential husbands were scarce, aware of their own value, easily frightened, had to be lured with a mingled sway of coyness and charm. Had Monica only minced down the narrow, correct way she had been taught, the prize might have been hers. But alas for corsets, in her very first season she blacklisted herself by letting an ineligible bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near...
Paris and London newspapers reported that Pope Pius XI had received Father Cox privately. The Vatican took pains last week, in its official Osservatore Romano, to correct this impression. Father Cox, it said, was merely present with other pilgrims at a public audience. "He neither had a chance to talk with the Pope nor receive the Pope's approval. He has not spoken with any one at the Vatican regarding his candidacy, neither is any one at the Vatican interested therein...