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...loss of hair, is only 28. After graduation from high school in Chicago he worked at various jobs besides dishwashing: factory hand, salesman, jewelry clerk, songwriter, night shift at the post office. The last job he took to find out "where the hell I was heading for. . . . The dead flow of days and nights finally straightened me out and on the day I was notified I was about to be promoted to a regular clerkship with increased wages, I resigned right away and left town the next morning." Since then (1928) he has been "drifting around" but writing steadily. Though...
Only occasionally did Senator Harrison dip into this flow of testimony. Once he got a vigorous assent from Mr. Duffield when he asked: "If the coming special session got to work, composed its differences, balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back...
When Anglo-Persian, due to world overproduction of oil, started to curtail its Persian flow (and therefore the Shah's royalties) Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State Teymourtache simply could not understand. "O King of Kings," he reputedly said to the Shah, "the policy of the English is clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more...
...Euphrasia Pelletier who, French-born in 1796, had expanded their Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd establishing 110 houses throughout the world to save fallen women. Sister Mary Magdalen had prayed that she might live to see Mother Mary beatified. Now, suddenly, she felt a flow of strength, arose from her bed, flexed her arms, walked briskly about. A small child in an adjoining bed jumped out of the window at the sight. Five doctors came to attest the cure, among them two Jews who swore to it on the gold Testament...
...abandon the expensive private physician and to choose cheaper or even charity hospitals. Besides this, the hospital delivery has great advantages over the delivery in the private home; better equipment, experienced assistants, and immediate help in case of emergency. Therefore, even if considered desirable, an attempt to stem the flow of patients to the maternities would fail, and, realizing the dangers lurking in hospitals, we should do everything to improve conditions of the institutional delivery, so that it will turn out to be safer than home delivery. ..." ¶ "To be able to make such improvements we must first determine what...