Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House. His health has never been robust and during the 1932 campaign when he worked day & night and slept in his clothes, he lost 32 lb. He takes stairs slowly and detective stories as relief from insomnia, and his old devil, indigestion, which confines him to the slenderest diet, has sapped his vitality in recent months. After his long summer holiday, he was back in Washington last week feeling so much better that he ordered the couch on which he used to lie in his old office removed from his new office...
...Estes declares: "A man's ability to become a father is almost unlimited as regards age. So long as a man is in the right condition he can become a father. Even if all shot, he can be rebuilt through exercise and diet, if there is anything left to work...
...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
Living for twenty-day periods on a rigid diet of canned food and corn sugar (dextrose), Dr. Talbott will make a study of the mineral balance of the body at various high attitudes. During these twenty-day periods, Dr. Talbott's menu will be exactly the same every day and the quantity will remain the same every day. If he gets hungry after eating the allotted canned gods he will eat more dextrose. The canned foods will include a wide assortment of meats, fruits, vegetables, cereals, and soups, as well as sea biscuits, powered milk, coffee, tea, sugar and chocolate...
...which means saddling Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services prepared to jam their budget through the Diet anyhow, circulated dire threats of what will happen to deputies who oppose them...