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...there were more than 800 cases, mostly in Brooklyn. Anxious suburban parents, obliged to go to the city, avoided their children upon returning home until after they had changed clothes and gargled. Child campers in New England, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were forbidden visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken by the disease in middle life, gave a pint of his blood...
...poet and international journalist. He founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army, fought in Palestine during the World War, was imprisoned in the fortress of Acco for leading a Jewish defense corps against Arab attackers in Jerusalem in 1920. Viewed now as a firebrand, he is forbidden to return to Palestine...
...Export of certain foodstuffs (tomatoes, rice, meat, etc.) from Spain was forbidden by decree. Reason: shrewd foreigners have been buying pesetas dirt cheap, using them to buy Spanish food dirt cheaper, thus depleting Spain of things to eat at an alarming rate...
...France holds that Austro-German union of any sort, political or economic, is forbidden by the post-War treaties...
...learned English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity once nearly cost him his life when he followed an African native marriage procession into the forbidden chamber. Some of his (translated) books: Strait Is the Gate, The Counterfeiters, The School for Wives, Travels in the Congo, The Immoralist...