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Death from a bee sting is not rare. In 1936, some 20 people in New England alone were stung, developed anaphylactic shock, died. Anaphylaxis is the opposite of immunity, results occasionally when a minute injection of some foreign protein, such as bee sting, makes the system extraordinarily susceptible to further injections of the same protein (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). Nobody knows exactly how bee sting works except that it may either kill or cure...
Ervin Elzie Joy, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., operates a railroad drawbridge. In his spare time he is an Unlicensed air pilot and builds planes. After five years of patient tinkering, Inventor Joy produced a 28-foot, wingless, flat fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared...
...words were added to the Constitution in 1913* and, because of the exigencies of War, the new income tax, personal and corporate, became the pillar of the Treasury. War-time taxation w?as regarded as temporary and when rates settled down at relatively high levels in the 19203, their sting was dulled by easy money. In Depression there was little income to tax. But when the bill for Recovery was finally presented, the Tax Collector suddenly emerged as stern, ubiquitous reality. Taxes had become, and were apparently to remain, a major item in the cost of doing business, a determining...
...other as a dwarfish lecher, don't deserve to be called even crude. Mr. Kaufman should have seen that some people are not subject to ridicule, and that entire has to be appropriate. Depicting the Supreme Court, moreever, as a gang of brainless no-men, takes most of the sting out of the satire thrown at the Executive. The audience in divided between laughing at the Now Deal and sympathizing with it. To these charges of indiscrimination and inconsistency must be added the guilt of that increasingly-popular dramatic fallacy: accusing the munitions-makers of being the chief cause...
Albert L&233;vitt resigned from the Department of Justice in August, perhaps for the last time. But he had yet another sting for Homer Cummings and the New Deal. Eight days after his resignation took effect, Lawyer L&233;vitt had popped up with a petition demanding that Nominee Hugo Black prove his eligibility to sit on the Supreme Court. Mr. L&233;vitt contended that Senator Black, by voting for the Supreme Court Retirement Act, had helped increase the emoluments of that office contrary to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution...