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...order to ensure maximum efficiency in the discovery and imprisonment of all political opposition, the Chilean junta created a new intelligence service last April. This new intelligence service combines the former Army, Navy, Air Force and civilian intelligence services into one organization. The sub-director of this new organization is Walter Rauff. Rauff is an ex-Nazi S.S. officer who is wanted for war crimes in West Germany. He is alleged to have murdered some 300,000 Jews. Rauff is the first known Nazi war criminal to ever be given a public job anywhere in the world...
Died. León Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations...
...Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), Russian, sub-director of Pasteur Institute, Paris, inventor of " phagocytosis "theory of white blood corpuscles, discoverer of therapeutic value of lactic ferments (Bacillus bulgaricus...
...help feeling that his manner of showing his good will is in somewhat questionable taste. It is a well known fact that the society intend in time to enlarge the possibilities of the school as quickly as the money that is needed is forthcoming. The appointment of a permanent sub-director, who shall be under the direction of the director but who shall always remain at the school, has been resolved upon by the society ever since its organization. But the present unsettled condition of its finances does not allow any more extended arrangements than the ones already entered into...
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