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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quinine & Free Trade. Although Kaiser Wilhelm II made a great show of himself as The All-Highest War Lord, historians generally consider Albert of the Belgians the only King who during the War actually directed his armies on the Western Front. To Marshal Joffre years afterward, His Majesty confessed that the expert jargon of strategists and tacticians. had sometimes proved trying. "I listened to the generals and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans," said King Albert, "so I would just pick out the one that I thought made the most sense." Aged only...
...Albert and preparing his speeches to the Senate. As an instance, His Royal Highness drew the Senate's attention at length to the conditions and prices under which the vital tropical drug quinine was available in the Congo, his recommendations leading to the State's supplying quinine free to the indigent and securing reduced prices for natives whose purchasing power by European standards...
...centuries ago British sailors learned to eat citrus fruits to keep free of scurvy. Within the past five years Vitamin C has been identified, its chemical structure determined, its synthetic preparation accomplished. Albert Szent-Györgyi of Hungary found a substance in animal adrenal glands, ascorbic acid, which turned out to be the same thing as Vitamin C, and extracted large quantities of ascorbic acid from paprika. Walter Norman Haworth of England plotted the architecture of the molecule and Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized...
...bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...
...headed by grave 42-year-old Oliver Franklin Holden, assistant make-up editor, decided that "in this era of turmoil" newspapermen needed organization but along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism as a profession." The Society would ''not commit...