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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this problem became acute. From the interior of China came a cry from an agent of the League of Nations sent there last autumn when a Chinese plague of cholera threatened the world (TIME, Oct. 25). As cholera subsided, typhus rose, wrung from League Sanitarian Herman H. Mooser a warning: "The danger is imminent. Refugees throughout Central China are simply filthy with typhus-carrying lice. All the Chinese soldiers in the Lung-hai area (see p. 17) are lousy. There are no Chinese delousing stations, and we are half crazy trying to get co-operation from Chinese military...
...colleagues gave ear to Representative Gray on the air, they rose neither in rebuttal or acclaim when the House next convened...
...down 13 German planes, he went to the U. S. on a mission of the Tsar's Government in 1917, never returned to his sovietized land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized his own company at Farmingdale, L. I., of which he is president, chief designer and test pilot. Many a Seversky design has been derided, but his planes in the air are fast, radical, practical, and he is producing them...
With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...
When on the opening night the lead, Rose Lerner, tumbled down the spiral staircase backstage and sprained an ankle, Bette was less surprised at the accident than horrified at her mother's long-range powers. Later she joined the Provincetown Players, hit Broadway's fringe in The Earth Between, had an engagement (complicated by belated measles) with Blanche Yurka's troupe in The Wild Duck, a summer at the Cape Playhouse, and Broadway successes in Broken Dishes with Donald Meek, The Solid South with Richard Bennett. Two screen tests resulted, and in December 1930, Bette, Ruthie...