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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Poland got what Czechoslovakia had pleaded for in vain. Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
When Dr. Fishbein took the stand he boldly repeated to an eager audience of former Brinkley patients and local high-school students that Brinkley was a "quack." He defined the word as "a person who makes extravagant or blatant claims as to his own ability in the field of science or medicine," pointed out that Brinkley had never submitted a description of his rejuvenating operations or drugs to a recognized scientific publication, declared that A. M. A. chemists had found Brinkley's prize rejuvenation medicine to consist of water, a dye (methylene blue) and a little hydrochloric acid, none...
...been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman, last year's tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt. L. E. Scott Briggs's MacMoffat, at 25-1. Another was Sir Humphrey de Trafford's Under...
Born. To Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 40, multimillionaire horseman, and his wife, the former Gwladys Crosby ("Gee") Hopkins, 33: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
...Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes us. To make a complete job of it, he then extracts the gold from our teeth...