Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drug Bill are slowly but surely completing a masterpiece in the history of effective lobbies. Following the accepted formula, these patriots first set up a tremendous wail, protesting in the name of all the well known "American rights" and an individualism whose ruggedness apparently claims the right to poison with governmental approbation. Failing this first move, they have now stooped to the more effective course of preventing public mention of the topic until wavering congressmen can be persuaded that it is worth their while not to be too serious concerning the public welfare...
...yearly deaths by asphyxia approximately 35% are caused by carbon monoxide. Many a carbon monoxide victim dies after his breathing has been restored, the poison cleansed from his blood. For three years U. S. Public Health Service and Bureau of Mines researchers have sought, through experiments on cats & dogs, to discover the cause of and remedy for such failures in resuscitation. They have found, reported Dr. Royd Ray Sayer of the U. S. P. H. S., that both carbon monoxide poisoning and lack of oxygen not only stop respiration but also injure brain cells and the central nervous system. Insufficient...
...political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard, a Red general 13th on the Red Army's ranking list, big, hearty Klimentiy Voroshilov...
...Other saintly patrons against physical ills: Giles (cripples), Erasmus (colic and cramps), Vitus (epilepsy, nervousness), Lawrence (lumbago), Benedict (poison), Timothy (stomach trouble), Apollonia (toothache), Anthony (pestilence), Catherine of Siena (headache), Thomas (blindness...
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland...