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...nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Sacret Heart Order...
...institute withheld details of its method, reserving them for the second letter to be issued one month hence But Secretary Miller plainly indicated what the Institute's method is to be. Most common device of the propagandist, said he, is to pin a bad name" on his opposition. Worst name in the Middle Ages was "heretic " Today it is "Red." Thus in the last national election Publisher William Randolph Hearst called Candidate Roosevelt a Red Billed Propagandist Roosevelt countered with the label "Economic Royalists." To take emotionalism and prejudice out of labels, Analyst Miller proposes to study what...
...preside over the activities of what its 440,000 members pride themselves on as the largest women's organization in the world, members of the American Legion Auxiliary elected Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, wife of a Washington State Superior Court judge. With her sash and diamond-&-platinum presidential pin, Mrs. Douglas accepted the responsibility of outdistancing her predecessor, Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln, Neb. (who traveled more than 50,000 mi. on the organization's expense account during her year in office), and set off at once with Legion officials to tour French battlefields and dedicate War memorials...
Finally the police gave up in their attempt to pin anything on Harry Bridges. The ambulance arrived in about an hour and took the suffering woman to the hospital...
...Reidsville, N. C., the latest sport is rolling-pin throwing contests. Target is a dummy with a bull's-eye drawn on it. Unofficial champion is Mrs. Frank Christian...