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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after becoming ill. Deputy Coroner James N. Patterson pronounced death due to a "strange form of encephalitis." Eight hours before the paper was read, Jule Heard, four-month-old Negress, was rushed to the hospital dead and Earl Costello, 26-year-old Negro, was rushed there dying of an unknown malady which physicians were led to believe was the new encephalitis...
...together with 400 bankers, industrialists, artists and economists, was dined at the smart, beautiful and bankrupt Hotel Pierre in Manhattan. It delivered a broadcast speech through its Howard Scott, bragging that: "Months ago we were a quiet, unknown, non-profit organization. . . . We have written 14,000 words. Those 14,000 words, to judge from the results, are the most potent 14,000 words that have been written up to date, if action and interest and curiosity are any judge of results." Having spoken, it scowled fiercely at questioners, refused to answer. Earlier in the evening its Scott had said...
...Debts. Beyond flat refusal to follow the Hoover commission method (see p. 7) his specific remedies for this international complexity remain unknown...
...urogenital infections. Dr. Millzner's use of methylene blue followed first aid instructions prepared this autumn by Pharmacologists Paul John Hanzlik (Stanford University) & Chauncey Depew Leake (University of California). Cyanides poison the body cells, make them incapable of taking life-essential oxygen from the blood. In some unknown way methylene blue detoxifies the cells, enables them to breathe again...
...Elizabeth's reign that invertebrate play was the delight of the groundlings who clamored also for "Faustus" and the tragedy of Lear; it could not be staged too often. "Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...