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...forced to resign or have been rudely thrown out of their chairs. No other eminent scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacobsohn, Indo-Germanic philologist at Marburg, who threw himself under a train. But many a Jew in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot...
...According to League of Nations figures, France possesses of airplanes in service 3,046, Belgium 350, Poland 700, Czechoslovakia 670 to which are added . . . thousands of armored cars, heavy guns . . . poison gases. . . . Has not Germany more right, in view of its defenselessness and lack of weapons, to demand security than the armed States interbound by coalitions? . . . Germany is ready to join any solemn non-aggression pact . . . and is ready immediately to endorse . . . the American President's magnanimous proposal to put up the powerful United States as a guarantor of peace...
Edward F. Barrett is a reluctant witness. He got his start as Mr. Mitchell's private secretary. Mr. Mitchell made him a National City vice president. He has handled Mrs. Mitchell's financial affairs for twelve years. Mr. Steuer complains that his opponent is "feeding poison in the most unwarranted way to the jury." Mr. Medalie observes that his opponent "seemed unduly disturbed." Snaps Mr. Steuer: "Anytime you get Steuer unduly disturbed you may hang that up as an additional trophy. ... I object to this continued insistence that Mr. Steuer is excited, Mr. Steuer is alarmed, Mr. Steuer...
Though they abound in detective fiction, police toxicologists are rare in the U. S. When the police of almost any big city want to know what poison was used or what drug taken in a puzzling crime, they must apply to the faculty of some medical school or to a commercial laboratory. One of the few cities with an official toxicologist is New York, which has Dr. Alexander Oscar Gettler, a hard-bitten professor who teaches chemistry at New York University when he is not sleuthing for the city with his test-tubes. Last week Dr. Gettler. taking with...
...play opens in cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...