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...first appearance of the present outbreak was at a large dairy near Oakland, Cal., from unknown source. A quarantine against shipment of hoofed animals, disinfection of cattlecars, hay, etc., was declared...
...interested in the Theatre? particularly in the work of Maude Adams. He was for years her stage manager. It was in the Theatre that he met John D. Williams, director of Rain. He staged many of his plays (particularly Justice and All Souls Eve). This association continued until the outbreak...
...outbreak of the War, he returned to Italy, joined the Army and covered himself with glory at Col de Lana. After the armistice he helped Herbert C. Hoover at Paris to make arrangements for the distribution of aid to Italy and Austria. In 1921 he became a Deputy, in 1922 Ambassador to the U. S. He is an ardent admirer of Benito Mussolini and a devoted slave of Fascismo...
...Brazil and there conducted a fight against yellow fever (he discovered its organism). Similar work was done in Peru, Ecuador, Central America and Mexico, President Vincent said, with the result that in 1923 no cases of the disease were reported in Mexico, Central America, Ecuador or Peru; an outbreak in Colombia was put under observation; control measures were under way in Northern Brazil and workers were in training to resume study of the disease along the coast of West Africa...
...Significance. The book is another outbreak, amid the general epidemic, of sketches of a much-written-about generation. While highly colored (as is inevitable in this type of account) with the author's personal predilections and prejudices, it is nevertheless readable, frank, humorous, and not, perhaps, more egotistical than need...