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Explaining that he had remained president much longer than he originally intended when he was elected 20 years ago, Mr. Teagle said he had carried the responsibility of chief executive officer long enough. Now he wanted more freedom for special work-meaning more time for first-hand study of the oil business...
...just before one dawn came a droning V of Rightist planes. Ninety bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed to explode...
...news which Columnists Pearson & Allen had confirmed at first-hand was that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, having hired the President's son Elliott to run his Southwestern radio stations and the President's son-in-law John Boettiger to run his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had offered James A. Farley, the President's first lieutenant, $200,000 per year to become general manager of the Hearst-papers...
...Colston's discovery of gonorrhea's simplest treatment is the result of a vast medical centre functioning ideally. Several months ago Johns Hopkins' Dr. Perrin Long heard of London experiments with Prontylin. sped there for first-hand investigation, sped back to Johns Hopkins for experiments on patients suffering from streptococcic septicemia. hurried into print and onto lecture platforms with his reports. Dr. Long and Dr. Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy...
Secretary Hull, who had been studying some first-hand samples of the Nazi tirade, which he refused to release as too obscene for publication in the U. S. press, promptly replied that he had instructed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd to make "emphatic comment" to the German Government on its semi-official abuse. Milder than a "protest," diplomatic "comment" requires no reply by the offending Government...