Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the activities of John Edgar ("Speed") Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investigation have put all other U. S. governmental investigating agencies in the shade. Virtually ignored by the U. S. public has been the Treasury's tried & true Secret Service, which tracks down counterfeiters, guards the person of the President. The Secret Service's jealousy knew no bounds when it was lately rumored that all U. S. spy divisions, including those of the PWA, WPA, FHA, SEC. would be consolidated under Director Hoover's direction...
...there is one person U. S. War Veterans should cordially dislike, it is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who twice vetoed their Bonus Bill. To persuade them that the President is still their best bet in the White House, National Democratic Chairman Farley last week patched together a Veterans Advisory Committee of Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, et al. To head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider...
...Germans the mystic idea that Christians should turn away from their churches and to the Party to find "positive Christianity." In thus bamboozling Germans, according to the Evangelical Manifesto, Nazi spellbinders use the terms positive and negative Christianity "in the manner in which the truth is withheld from a person who is ill"-i. e., to mask the Government's real efforts "to deChristianize the German people." National Priest. After quoting Nazi Party leaders at length, the Manifesto concludes: "When, within the compass of the Nazi view of life, an anti-Semitism is forced on the Christian that binds...
...Satan's double, like himself an inmate of Selig's Los Angeles Zoo, was an aged and amiable tiger named Bobby. Sequences showing Satan chewing a man were made by clipping together shots of Satan chewing a dummy with shots of Bobby playfully pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real trainer stood outside. In some sequences Animal Trainer Frank Phillipps, who has doubled for more cinemactors than any other man in his business, took MacLane's place. Most nerve-wracking moment in the manufacture of Bengal...
...physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound...