Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, many were the indications that, regardless of how skillfully the Government had handled the matter in Parliament, the Chamberlain Cabinet had not heard the last of the "air-raids precautions scandal." Thousands received gas masks of the wrong size. There were grave doubts whether they would be effective against even mustard gas. Most of the trenches were pathetically shallow and inadequate. There was profiteering in sandbags and shovels...
...good offices of South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow, who recently arrived in London after conferring in Lisbon with Premier Dr. Antonio Salazar. He will shortly visit Belgium, where his reception will be cool (see p. 27), then Germany. Neither Portugal nor Belgium nor the Netherlands, for that matter, is much better able than was Czechoslovakia to disregard any "advice" which the Great Powers may give about parceling out colonial territory-if the Big Four themselves can agree. But Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini risk becoming deadlocked in disagreements. This has been the fate of almost every Peace, Disarmament...
...past two months Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, rabble-rousing radio priest, has published the Protocols in his weekly Social Justice. Brushing aside the matter of their authenticity, Father Coughlin repeatedly stressed their "factuality," quoted Henry Ford (a onetime believer in the Protocols) : "They fit in with what is going on." Father Coughlin's point, buttered with many a some-of-my-best- friends-are-Jews disclaimer of antiSemitism, has been that Jews are to blame for Communism, that the aims of the Protocols closely resemble those of Communism-and of the New Deal, the C. I. O., numerous other...
...Continued use of laxatives, says Dr. Aaron, is actually a primary cause of constipation. "A few days are required for the colon to refill with waste matter after a complete evacuation by a laxative or cathartic. Many persons become panicky when they miss a day and are persuaded to take more laxatives so that they can have another movement, and then continue to take them daily. . . . The continued use of drugs so diminishes the sensitiveness of the bowel that stronger and stronger stimulation is required to produce activity of the bowel...
...Recommended minimum wages for steel companies accepting Government contracts of $10,000 or more. Hearings on the matter were started last July by the Public Contracts Board of the Department of Labor. Last week the Board recommended minima of 62½? an hour in the East and West, 45? in twelve Southern States. Subject to approval by Secretary of Labor Perkins, the recommendations are a blow to small independent steel companies, a blessing to Labor which estimated that 75,000 men would get raises...