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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the Nazi press jubilantly blamed "the Jews" for what had happened, pointing with specific accusation to M. Blum and Mr. Morgenthau as undoubted Jews and rehearsing at length the names of other Jews in official Washington and Paris. "The world cannot be cured with a restabilization of currencies alone!" barked German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...Henshall Ghiselin developed the technique at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. The heart of the problem was to get a sharp, clear x-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. The sharpness of the image depended on 1) the brightness of fluorescent material in the screen and 2) the length of time a patient may be subjected to x-ray transillumination. The invention in England of a zinc sulphide preparation which gave a bright blue image under x-rays and a cyanide preparation which gave a brilliant greenish yellow image solved the whole matter, for there are moving picture films...
Bolder was the overlapping American Veterans Association, longtime foe of the Bonus. In a full-page Cleveland Plain Dealer advertisement addressed to the Legion, it roared: "Already the demand has been made in several quarters for pensions for all World War Veterans without regard to length of service, need or disability. We will oppose this demand with every resource at our command. We invite your support in this fight, and urge that your convention declare to the public in unmistakable language where the American Legion stands on this issue...
...road trips this summer, hurried arrangements for improving his grandstand as a result of the Pennant he had just won in his first season as a big-league owner. Delighted with the prospect of another "subway series," New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. promised to double the length of its trains to take care of the 100,000 extra passengers who will use them every afternoon of play...
Thirty minutes of the scrimmage was devoted to defensive work, before Harlow allowed the A team to take the ball against a mixed eleven composed of Jayvees and Varsity C men. The first team drove the length of the field twice, interupted only by one intercepted pass. Bill Watt crashed over for the first score from the 3 yard line after a series of line gains had put the ball in position...