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Zonite Flayed. Makers of Zonite, chlorine disinfectant popular with women, recommend it for dandruff, wounds, ulcerations, pimples, boils, eruptions, sinus troubles, sore throat, noxious body odors, halitosis, and various other conditions. The Government decided that this was saying too much for a solution of sodium hypochlorite yielding approximately 1 % of available chlorine. Zonite was declared misbranded. Its merits as an antiseptic for some conditions are tacitly admitted...
...opposition to the Government's grain collecting campaign" (TIME, Oct. 28), 50 "kulaks" (rich peasants) were executed in various parts of the Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...
...production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters of their operatives, but are these men worse off than their ancestors who maintained life only at the pleasure of seven-year-locusts or the various vagaries of the weather...
...further research which Professor Fay will carry on while in Europe promises to be of value not only to future historians but for statesmen of today. The question of war guilt still perplexes the world and is a basic disturbing factor in the relations of the various countries...
Four hundred or more people have accepted invitations to attend the sessions to be held at Harvard Tuesday, November 12 and Wednesday, November 13 under the direction of the Calvert Round Table of Boston. This organization will hold a seminar in the Fogg Museum on those days to discuss various aspects of problems arising from the relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants...