Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve a fresh drive for "sterilization of the unfit" launched by the Party last week with the news that German Science has produced "a harmless means of sterilizing an already pregnant mother?" Adolf Hitler, according to the Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, was "away in the country." No responsible German would say where. In excited...
...daubing Jewish shops, slugging Jews' women. Beside each squad of Storm Troops rumbled a car bristling with Count Wolf von Helldorf's police to arrest Jews or others who resisted. Announced the Messiah of Nazi Jew-baiting, famed Race-Purist Julius Streicher: "I myself will head the drive to purge Berlin of all Jews and segregate them in ghettos...
Physiologist Gasser's appointment may mark a major turning point in the teaching of Medicine in the U. S. Under the drive of Dr. Welch, who died last year, and Dr. Flexner, who retires this autumn, pathology has dominated medical research. Medical students learn a great deal about diseased cells, tissues and organs, comparatively little about how the human body actually works. This is the province of physiology, which, under Dr. Gasser, may in the future be emphasized at Rockefeller Institute which, in turn, would influence all U. S. medical schools...
...jury's verdict ruinous, Editor Shipler this month splashed an announcement of his predicament on The Churchman's front cover in place of the usual cut or table of contents. Editor & Publisher's Marlen Edwin Pew, good friend of Dr. Shipler, helped launch a money-raising drive. The Christian Century, exclaiming "This Shall Not Happen!'' devoted its lead editorial last week to the matter. And other religious papers fell in line, unanimously convinced that they were facing a new and dangerous crisis in the battle against Hollywood. Excerpts from editorials...
...islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph E. Woolley, Honolulu contractor...