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After rebuffing President Roosevelt when he protested the recent Moscow congress of adult Communists of all nations (TIME, July 29 et seq.), Soviet leaders last week welcomed teen-age Communists of all nations to a similar junior Comintern Congress for fomenting the same old "World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...become more attentive and tender with her, their days are darkened by a terrible conviction that she has surprised them together. When they try to make friends with her, the temporary guardian accuses them of plotting. Pushed violently back & forth, her nerves snapped, carrying too heavy a burden of adult concerns and a fixed belief that nobody wants her, Margot is found drowned in France. Hendrick believes he has killed her. The sense of guilt stays with him after his divorce, after his marriage to Leda, after his return to the steel company...
Hoboes and roustabouts, who might think they can get $25 in hard cash dividends per month by trekking into Alberta, were served notice that the dividend will only be paid to bona fide adult Albertans of some years standing, and then not in cash but in credit. Unemployed Albertans who refuse to work will receive no dividends...
...Asthma, Colds. Extracts of the adrenal glands, chief exhilarators of the human system, prevent tuberculosis, cure asthma and common colds, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger of Monrovia, Calif. reported. But, an asthmatic child needs the extract from five to 20 steers for a single month's treatment, an asthmatic adult the extract from 20 to 30 steers. For lack of steers, Dr. Pottenger begged chemists to hurry invention of synthetic adrenal hormones...
...Neagoe, Dorothy McCleary. Surprising was the fact that the stories in Story were not better than they were. To describe them critics invented the phrase, "The Over-the-Edge-of-the-Table School," meaning that Story stones generally had the point of view of children peering up at an adult world with hurt. round eyes...