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...Congress or Auditorium hotels there, worried for months about a tiny blob called Entamcba histolytica. Doctors would advise them to continue to worry. For, although as an aftermath of the Chicago dysentery outbreak, Soo were known to be infected and 50 to have died, Entameba histolytica may lie dormant for months or years. Cases, some of them traceable directly to Chicago, are sporadically coming to light. Last week amebic dysentery again made headlines, this time in Manhattan...
Last week, with Cheshire House dormant, Walter Chrysler Jr. announced his debut into the industrial world as chair-man and president of a new sales corporation to market air conditioners. Its name: Temperature Corp. On its board of directors were Mr. Foy and Mr. Garbisch and Motormaker Chrysler's youngest son Jack. The elder Chrysler had put up most of Temperature Corp.'s $350,000 capital...
...primaries, tantamount to election. Bibb Graves, onetime (1927-31) Governor, became the first man in 33 years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none for Graves...
...Grad" I wish to voice my unqualified approval of the proposal to rekindle the dormant attitude of the undergraduate body toward the coming contest with "Old Eli" by staging a football rally on the eve of the epic battle. It is my sincere hope that the revival of this traditional custom will restore the "Harvard Spirit" to the status of the glorious past and expose the much-vaunted "Harvard indifference" as a myth propounded by white-livered pseudo-cynics who consider disloyalty to their alma mater a mark of intellectual superiority...
Viewing the production itself, one must accept the fact that Sidney Howard, the author, made no serious attempt to sweep his audience off its feet. The violent emotions of fear, hate, and rage, that Harvard's eminent Dr. Cannon has so well described are permitted to lie dormant. Effects are obtained by the presentation of agreeable and familiar types, involved in situations which bring out character and comedy...