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East View, N. Y.-Roma Garrett, 4, is slowly dying of leucemia. . . . Physicians have abandoned hope of saving her life. Union City, N. J.-Theodora Alosio, 4, a victim of leucemia, was gravely ill. The child's life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.-Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back...
...armorers, after all, are the true internationalists. Regardless of their nationalities, they work in concert at the two axioms of their trade--prolong wars, disturb peace. Between 1914 and 1918 they practiced constantly a neat practical way of prolonging...
...that you see fit. ... "Last summer I asked some of the [Brain Trusters] what their concrete plan was for bringing on the proposed overthrow of the established American social order. "I was told that they believed that by thwarting our then evident recovery they would be able to prolong the country's destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate industry and commerce. "The most surprising statement made to me was the following: " 'We believe that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current...
...this country; its only virtue is that it does not commit the State Department to anything and lets it straddle the real issue of whether C'ba is to be allowed to govern itself or is to be an American dependency. Inasmuch as its only effect is to prolong the misery of the Cuban people, it should be abandoned immediately and for it substituted a clear and forceful policy...
...their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake we chased lightly afflicted birds in a boat over the bodies of thousands . . . floating upon the water in all stages of decomposition. . . . Captured birds, removed to the Inglewood government bird sanctuary . . . have recovered rapidly after removal...