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...sooner had he spoken than in Brooklyn occurred a good example of how kidnappers can be caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors...
...great fact is that the Soviet State has plowed definitely through a "famine winter." Last week Stalin's smile translated itself into prompt action. More than 100,000 thoroughly punished peasants were released from their harsh exile, sent back on joyously clattering trains to help till the 225,000,000 Soviet acres thus far sown. Best of all, from the peasant's standpoint. Dictator Stalin created an All-Union Procuratorial Department to curb and supervise his strong-arm agents: the Gay-Pay-Oo, the militia, the criminal police...
...four years according to the dictates of custom has not been a totally profitable venture. It is a pitiful criticism of the academic routine that one successful graduate of the Class of 1908 attributes his success to luck, and returns to Cambridge with no other memories than those which prompt him to a giddy round of those pleasures from which anw uneducated man could derive full gustatory delight; pleasures which, if indulged in by an ordinary, uneducated man, would be considered the symptoms of an unexemplary spree. If the experience of 1933's graduates rivals that...
...favorite nest is a testicle. In itself the teratoma is not dangerous. But its parts, being embryonic in nature, may at any provocation burst into a rage of growth. Then a man has a wild cancer sending its buds throughout his system and early recognition of the monstrosity, its prompt abortion by x-ray and castration, become important...
...Power in the Federal Reserve Bank should, however, be more centralized so that it can take prompt action to tighten up credit as soon as inflation sets in, to free credit when deflation starts. At present with twelve scattered Reserve Banks and a central board "composed of men of diverse opinions," prompt and effective action is difficult...