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...last week. Anopheles gambiae, continued Mr. Fosdick, is "the most dangerous member of a dangerous family": the malaria mosquitoes. Native home of the gambiae is Central Africa, but about nine years ago they crossed the Atlantic presumably in a French airplane which flew from Dakar in West Africa, to Natal in Brazil. They were spotted by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, a member of the Foundation's staff. Within a year they had flown with the prevailing winds 115 miles up the coast...
...years ago in Chicago St. Dismas came into his own. The Good Thief attracted the whimsical but devout interest of a convert to Roman Catholicism, Dempster MacMurphy of the Daily News. Orator, raconteur, ex-song-&-dance man, MacMurphy was a well-born Southerner who added a "Mac" to his natal Murphy simply because there were no MacMurphys in the telephone book. He made a fortune as a vice president in the Insull empire, lost it in the crash, slept on park benches until he got a job on the News. One of his first News stories was about the feast...
Fiscal 1940 will not have been swaddled in Franklin Roosevelt's budget message until this week, but its pre-natal cries promised a worthy successor to fiscal 1939. the bouncingest budget ($8,985,000,000) of all. They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors...
...planes into regular service. Every week since 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa has been flying mail in fast Heinkel He. 705 from Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
...broke out, with a death sentence over his head, he shuttled between London, Paris. Russia, raising money and sympathy for his unborn nation. His assistant, Eduard Benes, meanwhile, faked passports, forged visas for Czech conspirators, escaped to Switzerland, then Paris where he and Masaryk set up a pre-natal National Council. The Allies were more than willing to foster a separatist movement in the heart of the Central Powers, and in 1917 Professor Masaryk set out for the U. S., there convinced Professor Wilson of the Czech case. Washington, D. C. is to the Czechoslovakian Republic what Philadelphia...