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...born on a winter day in 1882, an overdose of chloroform almost cost Sara Roosevelt her life. The nurse could not believe that the boy would live. They called him Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after his great-uncle who had married a Miss Astor. His mother remembered that he was plump and pink...
Kurt Sell, plump-cheeked, well-liked Washington correspondent for D.N.B., Germany's official press service, appeared last week as a witness for Transocean, told how its propaganda activities began. In 1933, said Newsman Sell, Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador in Washington, asked him how Transocean's service could be distributed to German-language papers in the U.S. that could not afford an expensive news agency. Sell suggested subsidizing the service, charging a nominal fee of $1 a month, payable at the nearest German consulate...
Energetic Bishop Sheil is not hurrying the Grail Ladies. Their U.S. leader, a plump, indomitable Dutch Ph.D. in philology, Dr. Lydwine van Kersbergen, spent a whole year rounding up her first group of 30 girls. From the lot, only six girls will be chosen to complete a three-year course leading to their vows. After that they will go into the world to do their work, carefully trained in Christian ethics, sociology, journalism, economics, art, apologetics...
Such was the background of Dr. Schairer's conference in Ann Arbor last week. Basic assumption in his group's discussions: at war's end Hitlerism will be defeated and Europe will be chaotic. Not ready to plump for the Danish scheme, the brain trust nevertheless favored a decentralized economic system, held that electrification would make it possible to disperse industry. At week's end, they announced their plan...
...Elected as president (without opposition) plump, middle-aged Mrs. Myrtle Hooper Dahl, a Minneapolis fourth-grade teacher. Mrs. Dahl's platform: U.S. children should be taught to 1) hate tyranny, 2) love...