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...Cancer (founded 1913). The League of Nations has a Cancer Commission under its Health Organization. Great Britain has a Cancer Committee of its Ministry of Health. The British Empire has a Cancer Campaign. There are an Association Française pour I'Etude du Cancer, a Komite fur Krebs-forschung, and similar bodies in Japan, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland. Besides teaching public and profession to recognize Cancer, these organizations also promote Cancer research...
...Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. Aline Hall, 22, wanted her husband to give her a fur coat. Her mother-in-law wanted a canary. The mother-in-law got a fur coat; Mrs. Aline Hall got the bird. Mrs. Aline Hall took poison, was dangerously...
...immediate difficulties are supposed to lie in large frozen assets, consisting of loans on mortgages, real estate and buildings, loans to the garment and fur trades. The bank's exact position will not be known for a long time, but the official hope that it will be reorganized is not widely accepted...
...World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform. A long Pullman train pulled in. Off hopped a little girl and boy in fur-trimmed blue coats. Behind them came their mother and a nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child by the hand, led them dancing and prancing back to the gate. There they spied Mrs. Hoover in hiding. "Grandmother!" they whooped and rushed into her arms. Thus did the President...
Press despatches from Cordova, Alaska, last week contained news which puzzled many a U. S. zoologist and paleontologist. Three weeks ago, it seemed, some one had found a wonderful prehistoric lizard in an ice cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent...