Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winston Churchill, dynamic Conservative elder statesman and great British friend of France, conferred in Paris last week with Premier Leon Blum and other high French leaders. On his return to London he conferred by special invitation with Lord Halifax, the new pro-German British Foreign Secretary...
Died. Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to Brazilian revolutionists...
...receiving treatment for cancer at Orlando, Fla., last week became violently ill. With muscles screwed up in agony, they died within a few hours of one another, suffering either from tetanus or from what doctors called "anaphylactic shock." Their deaths were traced to hypodermic injections of a special bacterial filtrate. The physician of the victims, conscientious Dr. Thomas Albert Neal, protested that he had administered 10,000 injections of the filtrate during the past two-and-a-half years "with remarkable success and with no previous ill effects." He announced his belief that one bottle had become contaminated, and when...
...existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess." one by one, the cards of a special deck whose faces they are not permitted to see. He submits that the far higher than expected number of correct guesses points plausibly to the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance...
...operating deficit in February for the first time in 17 years- $2,136,481, against a net operating income of'$38,792,779 in February 1937 and $58,367,529 in February 1930. Two days later Franklin Roosevelt told a press conference at Warm Springs, Ga. that the special railroad report of ICCommissioners Splawn, Eastman & Mahaffie, given to him fortnight ago, would not be made public until after he had conferred in Washington this week with a group of operating railroaders. Then, said the President, definite recommendations would be sent to Congress in a special message...