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...United States, to avoid suspicion of imperialism, has merely been abstaining until conditions in Cuba shout for a mediator, certainly the time for intervention is now propitious. To ignore such wholesale slaughter as has recently taken place on Havana streets will extract what few teeth the much interpreted Platt Amendment has left, and establish a precedent which will make intervention in Cuba by the United States at any future date difficult or impossible...
...Stevens, M.D. (Warner Brothers). "They say that being a doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes...
Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
First they proved on guinea pigs, rabbits and themselves that the placental extracts were not poisonous and caused no sex derangements. Then on guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys they demonstrated that the extract neutralized diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch. By good fortune 15 children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles...
...Senator Glass and Counsel Pecora shook hands for photographers as they made up their quarrel as to committee procedure. Senator Glass won his point of demanding advance information on what Inquisitor Pecora was trying to extract from witnesses...