Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders directly from the mayor's brother and secretary, Joseph Shaw, a retired naval lieutenant. Lists of the persons spied on were introduced, including Mayor Shaw's last opponent, John Anson Ford, other local politicians and publishers, District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts himself. Last week the jury handed down its verdict: the two Kynette aides were innocent of intent to commit murder, Captain Kynette guilty...
...groups served to keep Czech nationalism alive. When the World War broke out members filtered into Allied armies, formed Sokol legions to fight their old masters. Today, the Sokol numbers some 800,000 men, women and children, one out of every 20 in the population, organized in 3,265 local branches...
...caught the harsh and compelling sound of the Nazi bands just over the mountains, have listened to Nazi oratory and fallen under the spell of Adolf Hitler's pan-Germanism. Ninety percent of them voted as a unit for Konrad Hen-lein's Sudetendeutsch Partei in the local elections. Nothing unites a group like a grievance and Henlein's grievous story is as follows...
...large majority of the A. M. A.'s delegates last week held firm to this tenet: that the health of all the people of this country will be protected best if: 1) each locality is permitted to adapt one of several endorsed social-economic-medical procedures to its own local needs; 2) doctors are put in charge of all governmental and corporate medical systems. Greatest desideratum to them is a medical Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet. Great fear is a nonmedical Secretary of Welfare...
...general medical achievement. To Surgeon Rudolph Matas of New Orleans went their first annual Distinguished Service Medal, given for "meritorious service in the science and art of medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin...