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Some 6,000,000 U.S. hay-fever victims would have smiled through their tears last week if they had known about a new last-minute treatment that, if it lives up to its promise, will provide quick relief. In the New York State Journal of Medicine, Dr. Ernest J. Elsbach of Manhattan told of his experiments with a germ-brewed soothing substance at the Vanderbilt Clinic...
...Moslems in brown uniforms, armed with spades. They were Khaksars, "the Humble as the Dust," meeting for "a certain religious observance." But India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, has had some experience with Khaksar humility and Britain has had plenty with subject peoples who want to make hay while her sun is eclipsed. Last week the Marquess hastily ordered India's provincial Governments to declare the Khaksar movement illegal "wherever necessary...
...wells ran dry in Indiana and Kentucky, farmers used trucks to haul water for their stock. In New York, garden crops were badly damaged, lack of hay and pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...
Four bands, including the crack complements of Ted Fio Rito and Eddie Duchin, performed. Judy Garland trilled Over the Rainbow. John Charles Thomas baritoned Sunday-evening favorite, Albert Hay Malotte's The Lord's Prayer. Gene Buck gave mikeside support to an uncertain quaver that was Irving Berlin returning God Bless America to the air. Day after this outpouring Mutual began concerted plugging of its exclusive popular-tune library. Yet its competitive advantage over the big networks was not immediate. Present commercial contracts send Mutual programs to twelve affiliates who want no part of ASCAP as well...
...kept out of the limelight as usual. Unobtrusive, sharp-faced, medium-tall, grey-haired, he has been in the U.S. foreign service for 35 of his 54 years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending the U.S. Fleet round the world in a mighty demonstration of U.S. strength...