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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
Ergot is a rust on the heads of rye. Ergot extract is widely used in obstetrics, to cause contraction of the uterus and control uterine bleeding. The physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...
...England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony of the present Prince of Wales. (England's potent Isaacs, Samuel and Rothschild families are Jews of German origin...
...this Gobi boneyard the party will probe a Pliocene stratum (age ended 550,000 years ago) Said Dr. Andrews: "It is June 9, 1930 just the right age where we expect to find evidence of the origin...
...William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould Schurman, Julia Clifford Lathrop. Twenty-two years ago this month 14 people, including zealous Mr. Beers, met at the New Haven home of Anson Phelps Stokes. Dr. Stokes now is canon of the Washington Cathedral, engaged in writing History of Universities from Their Origin to the Present Time. In 1908 he was the very active and increasingly powerful secretary of Yale University. With his hospitality Mr. Beers founded the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, pioneer body, and became its secretary. Next year he founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, and became its secretary...