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...press: "The Federal Trade Commission has uncovered the power trust's nationwide practices of buying reporters, editors and news agencies. "We believe that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism is laid on the principle that newspaper ownership should have no interest save in publishing facts and making fair editorial...
...Soviet delegation," he said, "is convinced that this refusal to limit reserves will destroy the hope of solving the disarmament problem...
...Emden sent a landing party ashore to destroy the wireless station of Port Refuge in the Keeling Islands. Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden. After a running fight which lasted ten hours the Emden was driven ashore, a blazing wreck...
...they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none, so far as is known, on humans...
...data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...