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Last week the National Tuberculosis Association took a cue from Walt Disney, released the first animated cartoon on public health. The picture, which combines photographs with drawings, is called "Goodbye, Mr. Germ." It tells the adventures of "Tee Bee," who swims around from lung to lung, raising an enormous family, and drilling through lung-pipes. The germ, who wears a top hat and cackles like The Shadow, finally gets trapped in a sanatorium. Message: watch out for lingering coughs, get tuberculin tests and X-rays...
...Pittmans of North Carolina, the Buckners of Kentucky. It was a magazine cover that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian...
...tortuous course midway between appeasement and action, while the Navy itched for a go at the little yellow men in their big boats (see p. 32). As usual U. S. public opinion was slow to react, because its leaders had as yet to give it clue or cue. The State Department, in this month before election, was even charier than usual of taking a firm stand until it knew what the reaction was. But in Tokyo, where the Government not only informs but makes public opinion, there were many signs that Japan intended to force the U. S. to take...
...Straw was an amendment offered by New York's big-boned Harvard Republican isolationist from Franklin Roosevelt's neighborhood, Hamilton Fish. Representative Fish, taking his cue from a proposal which the Senate had rejected by a narrow 43-to-41, proposed to defer calling up of men for 60 days after the passage of the bill, to see whether the necessary number of men could be raised by voluntary recruiting. Practical effect of this device, since the Army expected to need six weeks to get its registration machinery in order, anyway, would be to delay the draft...
...line. He accused them of consorting with Communism, of falsifying the election returns, of failing to improve domestic conditions "after six years of short cuts to Utopia." Shrewdly he hinted opposition to the confiscation of U. S. interests in Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick to the point of revolt. . . . At the proper time I will return to Mexico and claim the high office to which I am entitled by an overwhelming vote of the people...