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...destroy the Westwall and all its works, Das Schwarze Korps (organ of the Nazi SS Guards) stormed, "Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, injustice, laziness and crime. ... It is pitiful that American children . . . don't even recognize the poison...
...most sinister and most beneficent metal is quicksilver, whose properties mystified men for 4,000 years. A deadly poison in some forms, it was once mined chiefly by slaves, convicts, syphilitics. It is used in the making of felt hats, anti-barnacle marine paint, medications, many another product. Without its uniform sensitivity good thermometers would be costly and rare. Its hypersensitive crystals (mercury fulminate) have detonated most of the world's bombs...
Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...
...Economist recently showed that if the whole of all British incomes of $8,000 yearly and over should be taken by the State-which already takes from 37½% to 80%-Sir John would reap only an additional ?60 millions. Mere chicken feed -and of a kind to poison those bourgeois pullets who lay so many golden Treasury eggs...
This was the story told in Philadelphia last week by John Nichols to Workmen's Compensation Referee John Alessandroni. The hearing climaxed a series of State and medical investigations of carbon disulfide poisoning in the rayon industry, brought to public attention a picture of industrial disease as lurid as the 1936 silicosis and radium poison scandals. Referee Alessandroni decided in favor of John Nichols, but Nichols got no money, for the new Pennsylvania occupational disease law did not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1938-one day after he left...