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Delighted, LaGuardia grabbed a head of cabbage from a stall, held it up for photographers, said: "My opponent's head." Farley: "... A man who has openly and publicly made himself a liar, a speaker of insult . . . obscene language . . . wording so low . . . any individual so depraved as to dirty his tongue with uttering them . . . who believes in hypocrisy in action and filth in language." LaGuardia: "To quote two of their own county chairmen: 'That dope Herbie'" [meaning Lehman...
Roosevelt's only come-back was to make a national issue out of the pending strike, and ask Lewis to stall it in the interests of national defense. The steel companies, Congress, and public opinion naturally sided with the President. But the 53,000 miners struck despite this, and now Lewis is being forced to negotiate with U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, while the President is contemplating a "new legal approach to the problem of minimizing defense industry controversies...
According to Harvard's Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin, at least 2,500,000 people in the U.S. have or will have diabetes before they die. According to Toronto's Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin, most of these people may be able to stall off the disease or smother it in the early stages if they take proper measures. Last fortnight both men, greatest diabetes authorities in the world, met in the New York Academy of Medicine, told doctors how to hold down the rising diabetes rate.* Significant facts...
Army pilots suffered the consequences. On the third day of trial flights two pilots were killed in a plane stall in Utah. That night another flew into the ground in Idaho. Less than a week later another boy, with ice on his wings, fell in Ohio. Next day an engine failed over Long Island Sound: one drowned, two injured. At Cheyenne two died when a spitting motor sent a plane into a spin after the takeoff. Another flier broke his neck in an Ohio snowstorm. Engine failure killed a pilot in a Daytona Beach takeoff. Eight days later another plane...
...long step toward economic warfare. When he froze the U.S. assets (and future financial transactions) of the 16 remaining unfrozen European countries (see p. 13), he did not merely lock the stable door too late. Though the big horse was gone, several ponies still fed in the U.S. stall. Dividends and patent royalties due Germans have been piling up in the U.S., providing dollars that could easily be used to finance the Gestapo in this Hemisphere as well as at home. Some of the newly frozen neutrals, notably Switzerland, have been financial servants of the Axis. The President...