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...lung was formerly considered rare, but in the last 20 years it has increased steadily, not only in the U. S., but in Canada, England, Germany. Before he died last June, Dr. Philip B. Matz, U. S. Veterans' Administration research chief, examined 138 clinical and post-mortem records from the veterans' hospitals to find out where lung cancer came from and how long it was going to be here...
...both of Leon Blum's action in calling a "shadow parliament," and to the widespread charge that he is a fascist, Edouard Daladier has summoned the French "deux chambres." Scheduled to meet this week, he deputies can either decisively rebuke the methods of their premier, or become a post-mortem rubber stamp on the death of democracy...
...instructions to deliver the brand-new 14 to Northwest Airlines at Las Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight of ground-from Burbank to Daggett (in the Mojave Desert), instead of skirting the hills and staying on the airlines...
Chiang Conquers AIL The marriage of General Chiang was important because it made him the post-mortem brother-in-law of the Kuomintang's late sainted Sun; brother-in-law of Big Banker T. V. Soong; and brother-in-law of Dr. H. H. Kung, famed descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius, who also married a Soong girl. Chiang returned to China to head the Kuomintang Government at Nanking. He was soon styled the Generalissimo, and headed a campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most...
...officer . . . who has a disconcerting habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the unbuttoned half-Dutch ex-farmer from Africa will turn up, liable to be reminded, by the look of the fat lady on his left, of a post mortem he did on a cow." Matter-of-fact, 40-year-old, amiably bi-natured. Novelist Cloete has been both. Enlisting in 1915 in the Guards, he was wounded at the Somme so badly that he was invalided out of further service, went down to South Africa (which one branch...