Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bosses & underlings) which built up and elected Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, stayed with him in 1936. At the Philadelphia convention three years ago, about half the 1,100 delegates were Federal jobholders. Next year only Cabinet officers, Congressmen and a few top-rank policy officers of the Roosevelt regime may be delegates. Power unprecedented will be in the hands of the State bosses, Jim Farley's friends. The whole Roosevelt strategy of getting uninstructed delegations for 1940 was out on the ropes. If ever there was a juncture when Franklin Roosevelt needed to talk with Jim Farley, this...
...pushed his sorest worry, cotton, in a new direction. In the 1936 Soil Conservation Act, Secretary Wallace was empowered to use his funds to expand foreign markets and remove domestic surpluses of commodities or commodity products. Under this authority, and that latent in the 1939 Farm Appropriation Bill, he may spend $50,000,000 in subsidizing export cotton and cotton products. This was the first time that the "products" phrase of the authority had been used, and it was a politically agile move, since nobody has damned the New Deal, particularly its Wage & Hour Bill, harder than Southern textile...
...doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...
Various medications have been used for relief of tic, such as alcohol injections, salicylates, trichlorethylene. Latest proposed treatment is Vitamin B 1 (TIME, May 8). But all these treatments are palliative, none gives permanent relief. Surgical cutting of nerves in the face was tried as early as 1748. Since then the surgical technique has been refined to include cutting of nerve roots and ganglions in the brain...
...chemical compound called chlorophyll is present in all the green plants of Earth, but spectroscopic analysis of the Martian patches has failed to disclose chlorophyll there. However, chlorophyll is simply the efficient catalyst which terrestrial plants have developed to enable them to store energy from sunlight, and Martian plants may have evolved a different...