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Recruit. At Fort Dix, N.J., John Merighi, who had undergone 40 operations, been blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, half paralyzed, and had a headache for ten years, was found physically fit at last, admitted to the Army...
...Edison knew that President Roosevelt's appointment of Meaney was the routine sort of kick-in-the-face that practical politicians must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...House Ways & Means Committee concentrated last week on ways & means to get more blood out of the taxpayer-turnip. They sat deaf as beetles to dire warnings of moral disaster from the eight "community property" States*. The eight States had argued (getting a little blue in the face) that a change in the tax laws to require joint income-tax returns would cause more divorces and force men & women to live in sin. But committee members, hard-pressed by the revenue-hungry Treasury, were concerned more with cash...
...stone-deaf Lady Strickland's Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet. She remarked, as she got up: "At last I've heard something." Last week all the Maltese heard something they had been waiting long to hear: thunders of noise that meant an even chance of pasting the enemy back after almost two years of being pasted. Malta had gotten important reinforcements...
...special classes for feebleminded children and for geniuses, classes in hospitals and bedridden children's homes, a school for the deaf, special schools for bad boys and girls, the nation's only music and arts high school, and the biggest public aviation trades school in the U.S. ^ Its psychiatrists (headed by Dr. Caroline Zachry) keep tabs on some 3,500 problem children a year...