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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptings. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has publicly buried his own appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...
...work on the Limited Editions Club's 37-volume Shakespeare, he still holds his job as adviser to the Harvard University Press. Theoretically he is supposed to be retired; the catch is that he cannot afford to be. As independent as he is softspoken, Bruce Rogers prefers to die in harness rather than cash in on purely commercial work. Last year his earnings were $1,200; his peak (for two years only) was $10,000 a year...
...Congress when he discussed dealing with the Dictators. It is expected to put an end to Germany's export trade to the U. S., which amounted to $92,000,000 in 1937, $64,000,000 last year. Said Adolf Hitler last January. "The German people must export or die...
Every year 450,000 people in the U. S. get pneumonia. Every year more than 100,000 of them die. Next year, if they receive prompt and proper medical care, there seems to be no reason for more than 36,000 people to succumb to the suffocating disease that up to now has been the nation's third biggest killer. The official news of this medical triumph came from the Food and Drug Administration, which last week licensed the sale of sulfapyridine...
...last week Professor Charles Fremont McKhann of Harvard threw figures to the winds, joyfully proclaimed to the Dallas Southern Clinical Society: "People just won't die from pneumonia any more...