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Died. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, 54, of the U. S. Public Health Service, discoverer of "vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville...
...Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity. The 15th century martyr, Bohemian John Huss, was their most eloquent devotee of the cross. Today only the esoteric significance of language, as understood by pedants, betrays the Slavic as the most numerous of European races. Miscegenation and environment have destroyed racial semblance, shattered racial pride. There are more than 150,000,000 Russians, Poles...
Dumas' story of the diamond necklace, cause celebre, E. Barrington dismisses for its fictional parts and characters. "It needs no decoration from fiction, and I have told it as it happened . . . merely touching history with imagination and making the true characters live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated...
...plain enough. He used the term in its proper sense as applied to the Bismarckian philosophy of the centralization of government, dominating all the activities of the people. Whether Governor Smith knows what the term 'State socialism' means or not, he at once jumped for the martyr's crown...
...Outlook story of Frank Silva's confession will have little or no influence upon those who have already made up their minds. To those who believe Vanzetti a martyr. It will give the comfort of corroboration to those who believe him guilty. It will be brushed aside as coming from a person wholly unworthy of credence, untested by hostile cross-examination and unsupported by anything that could be properly termed independent evidence. To one who examines the Bridgewater case for the first time, it raises the regret that it was not discovered in time for use at the trial...