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...Sawyer . . . whom the President made a Brigadier General, sought to dominate the Bureau? and its employees and to destroy my policies. He carried falsehoods to the President and sought to locate hospitals in a way that would be advantageous to his own interests. A homeopath himself, he sought to have homeopaths replace allopaths. He established a stoolpigeon system within the Bureau and in other departments of the government as well. He was a vain, strutting little creature and fancied that he had a great attraction for women. He held himself out to be the personal representative of the President...
...Destroy all weapons, ammunition, military supplies, and apparatus for chemical warfare...
...queen's rook file. Play began the next night with the 41st move. On the 47th, both queens fell, leaving Alekhine with a rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After the longest match in chess history?74 nights?there was a new champion...
...conference was necessary because there are a limited number of channels in the ether through which radio communication can pass. Several messages at the same time upon a particular wave length, or too near it, destroy each other over a wide area of the earth (interference). Traffic regulations were needed...
...risk one's life but not one's life insurance flying. To destroy the popular fallacy that normal policies do not insure against aviation accidents the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company queried 50 national underwriters. Forty-two have no clause in standard policy contracts eliminating liability from aeronautical activities. Four have special clauses eliminating such liability until the policy is one year old; paid. Four have similar clauses for two years...