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...troublesome child to tell what troubles him. The child will do this most readily if questioned apart from his parents, especially apart from his mother. Says Dr. Kanner: "The mother is often apt to quote diagnostic terms obtained through reading or from previous medical, osteopathic, or chiropractic consultations cr from some supposedly enlightened relative or neighbor. How much harm may be done in this manner was perhaps best demonstrated by the 13-year-old, slightly retarded girl who was wheeled into the office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that...
...were said to be admitting Saar Jews and other Saarlanders who fear Nazidom at a rate of one every 30 seconds. Most refugees told tales of terrorism which could not be checked. As soon as the plebiscite result was known, Saar Nazis rushed to non-Nazi Saar newsorgans, hung crépe upon the doors. Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell. Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi. Of 120 police under suspicion about 30 were collared, seemed destined for Nazi...
...Keep your windows closed!" was the next order, to discourage snipers. Dutch troopers enforced it by firing with abandon into every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...
...Kill him! Kill him!" screamed citizens of Bayonne last week as Manager Gustave Tissier of their Crédit Municipal was hustled for questioning to the prefecture. Shocked friends recalled that only recently he was proposed for the Legion of Honor. Now police were saying that Manager Tissier had given jewelry left in pawn to his pretty friend. Impossible? Mais non! Soon grim detectives from Paris were staggering Bayonne with the assertion that Manager Tissier and his handful of jewels were not the point. They claimed, after a hasty rummage through the Crédit Municipal's books, that...
...Stavisky swindle consisted in selling to French insurance companies bonds of the Bayonne Crédit Municipal to an amount fantastically greater than its assets. As in the Kreuger swindle, insurance company directors were duped by the aura of sanctity and good faith around French pawnshop bonds. Especially reassuring was a letter received by insurance companies in 1932 from the Minister of Labor, then M. Albert Dalimier. The letter stressed the fact that under French law insurance companies may hold part of their funds in pawnshop bonds, urged the desirability of doing so, mentioned Bayonne. As the scandal burst last...