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...were in a state of physiological unbalance with degeneration and healing going on at the same time. When the paralysis immediately follows a mastoid operation, the nerve may be under pressure and should be exposed at once. When the nerve is destroyed sufficiently to require insertion of a nerve graft, the operation must be delayed several months; if cut across or torn across in skull fracture, three weeks after the injury seems to be the best time to insure perfect regrowth of nerve fibres and restoration of motion to the face...
...Tickle objected to any delay of the operation. Grimacing, said he, "was due to a splitting of the neurofibrils in the graft. A lapse of time for degeneration of the facial nerve does not help. I have found a large proportion of cases of spasm where the grafting took place six months or more after injury...
...majority of six in the Quebec Legislature. Allied with the Conservative opposition was the new reform Liberal party, Action Liberale Nationale, of Paul Gouin, son of Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting he began reading into the record the august name of Taschereau...
...that I protest to the six inaccuracies as to fact in your account of my educational advisory business (TIME, May 25), but I am not an '"employment agent," not even licensed, can't pay the political graft in Massachusetts...
Hitler's graft, according to Spivak, is more respectable: The Munich publishing firm of Franz Eher publishes the official Nazi organ, Volkischer Beobachter; most school textbooks; and Hitler's best seller, Mem Kampf. Even over Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's desperate embargo on marks, Nazi leaders are suspected of having smuggled out of Germany millions of marks for a Nazi rainy...