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...press into a lather of fury. Through its news agency the Government roared: "The Vatican must decide whether it will allow the improper utterances of one of its servants to go unpunished or call him to order. . . ." Stormed Der Augriff: "Mundelein's challenge was made in a tone hitherto reserved for the wildest street agitator. He insults not only the German Minister [Goebbels] but the head of the State and the entire people including German Catholics...
...dying or at least suffering paralysis of her left side, the woman survived and now competently directs a large household. Her memory is not so good as it once was, but she does | not lose the thread of magazine continued stories. All this is most unorthodox according to the hitherto accepted principles of brain physiology. But to Dr. Leland B. Alford of St. Louis, also at the psychiatrists' meeting, the Pittsburgh woman's case did not come as much of a surprise...
...average daily treatment takes only five minutes," said officials," and this time could be reduced to two minutes if desired. The great quantity and penetrating power of these rays permits the administration of much larger doses to deep-seated tumors than has hitherto been possible with lower voltage X-Rays or with radium...
...loudspeakers and other things. . . . None of these things is of any use to me." His audience tittered nervously, and shrewd Neville Chamberlain followed up with the handsome announcement that he proposed to abolish the "trousers tax" of 15 shillings a year, which every Briton who employs a manservant has hitherto had to pay. After this he got down to brass tacks and his pop-eyed listeners learned how the British Government proposes to pay for its five-year $7,500,000,000 rearmament program...
...alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make a surefire appeal to Canada's patriotic masses, but also to placate conservative voters hitherto repelled by his loud New-Dealishness. Nor could his countrymen be unaware that the U. S. headlines "Mitch" Hepburn was making were prime advertising of Canada as a haven to which timorous U. S. Industry might flee from upsurging U. S. Labor...