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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Encephalitis. Less widespread than poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), but more destructive, is encephalitis. Young victims are often left stupid, shuffling, problem children, older ones drooling cripples, with muscular tremors, mumbling speech, double vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective...
...Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...
Sabotage (Republic) starts out right innocently as that folksy love story about the young airplane mechanic and the traveling show girl in the quietest little Mid-American village in Hollywood. But when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...
When every military plane young Mechanic Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver) works on crashes, G-men arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most...
Here I Am a Stranger (Richard Greene, Richard Dix, Brenda Joyce, Roland Young; TIME...