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...Impressed with the resources of U. S. history as a mine of cinema material, Producer Darryl Zanuck has so far worked it for such nuggets as The Bowery, The Mighty Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt...
...bloodless was the patient that Dr. Núñez was obliged to dissect the muscles of the arm to locate a vein through which to transfuse donated blood...
...arsenic, a light metallike element, have destructive effects upon the twirling spirochete which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...
...room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant he had struck it rich...
...This Incident." Japanese listeners heard the War Office Radio announce that the Premier had been "killed" (not "assassinated") and the official broadcast continued in so moderate a vein that Japanese censors later passed dispatches in which it was called an "implied defense" of the killers. They, according to the War Office, "decided to rise for the purpose of removing corrupt elements around the throne who, they considered, should be charged with the crime of destroying national policy, in co-operation with Admiral Okada, the Premier, senior military and financial factions and bureaucrats, at this juncture when Japan, is confronted with...