Word: known
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known that the defeated Rightist candidate, on his way to Europe, stopped off in Buenos Aires to confer with General Carlos Ibáñez, onetime Strongman of Chile, who was implicated in the Nacista uprising and is regarded by some Rightists as their white hope for another revolt. At week's end, back to Chile flew General Ibanez, presumably with President Aguirre's permission. He was welcomed by several thousand cheering Nacistas in their green shirts and military caps...
...assembly. The Peruvian Government not only tried to control the newspaper correspondents, it censored and spied on the delegates. . . . Secret service men were found searching the offices of the American delegation. . . . The Government . . . violated diplomatic immunity and examined the delegates' mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting correspondents. . . . The censor cut the telephonic communication of Leland Stowe on two occasions while he was dictating his dispatch to the [New York] Herald Tribune...
...keenest Kieran of all is the New York Times's, John Francis, considered by many the best-equipped sports philosopher since William Hazlitt (1778-1830), known to many more as the least stumpable question-answerer on Canada Dry's Information Please program...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Richmond, Va., 28-year-old Dr. Charles Frederick Code told of his researches on histamine. For them he was awarded the Theobald Smith award of $1,000. Histamine is an organic chemical, a product of protein decomposition. Scientists have long known that histamine is especially concentrated in the cells of the lungs, liver and skin, but they did not know where it came from...
...that the chemical cause of asthma, hay fever and other allergies is known, he concluded, it may be possible to work out a method of controlling abnormal histamine production and thus checking the diseases...