Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the heroine of this legend was once more thinking of the German Army and The Netherlands' floodgates. Nowadays you can stop an army by flooding just over its hub caps, and Lieut. General Baron J. G. G. van Voorst tot Voorst, Commander in the Field of the Dutch Army, had already splashed around on his horse through some flood-test areas (see cut). Lieut. General and Queen were ready to flood some more. Though it had rained heavily off & on for three weeks, The Netherlands opened additional dikes to perform what was described as preliminary "saturation...
...German Intelligence.) Back in France, she continued leading her conspicuous life, apparently unafraid. The French knew she was spying but could pin nothing on her. They decided to deport her, whereat she broke down and offered to spy for France. They sent her to Belgium to work on General Moritz von Bissing, the German military governor. She proceeded from there to London where she told the British Intelligence Service she was in France's pay to spy on Britain. The B. I. S. advised her to stop, let her go to Spain, where she was soon seen again...
...Death" wing stationed at Magdeburg, who were ordered to intercept Britain's leaflet raiders. Another mutiny was located in the reconnaissance groups at Kaiserslautern, where seven squadrons balked. They, apparently, did not relish the receptions the French in their Curtisses had been extending. This week the French General Staff reported the engagement of 27 Nazi fighters by nine French fighters in which one-third of the Nazis were shot down, none of the French...
...University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...
...Office of Education jointly issued a manual for teachers called High Schools and Sex Education. It was written by famed free-lance Educator Benjamin C. Gruenberg and J. L. Kaukonen of the Public Health Service. A similar manual, written by Dr. Gruenberg in 1922, got nowhere, but Surgeon General Thomas Parran, encouraged by his recent success in killing another taboo-discussion of venereal disease-had high hopes for this new campaign. Said he: "Many people see sex dimly through a mist-dangerous, but mysteriously attractive. . . . Modern psychology and medicine . . . have shown over and over again the need for replacing taboos...