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...first time France had a Cabinet including women, of which for good measure cultured, bookish, music-loving Premier Blum had included three: Madame the Undersecretary for Scientific Research Irene Curie-Joliot, daughter of the discoverers of radium; Madame the Undersecretary for National Education Cecile Kahn Brunschwig, longtime French feminist; and Madame the Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore, a onetime village librarian who of late has been outstanding in French child welfare leagues. Under French law these ladies have no vote and, should one have occasion to sign a check while in office, her husband must countersign it to make...
...appointment by Premier Blum just leaving for London last week to lecture medical savants on her most recent work in evolving synthetic radioactive drugs which, because of their light atomic weight, can be injected and tolerated by the human body while they do their cancer-killing work. Radium's great Irene then flew from London to Paris, prepared to consecrate herself to Politics...
...rays and radium rarely have an effect in retarding the chainlike spread of black cancer, Dr. Frank Earl Adair of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has found. Surgery is the only weapon, and then only as a prophylaxis...
...knew better than Ladenburg and Van Voorhis that radium poisoning rots flesh & bone, finally kills. Terrified they ripped off their clothes, wiped their skins with wet cotton. To find specks they could not see, they used an electrical radium detector of the sort that sets up a staccato clicking in the presence of radioactive emanations (TIME...
Next day the room was roped off and four assistants went over everything with radium counters, recovered most of the burst tube's contents. Meanwhile the two victims took repeated blood tests. Said Chairman Joseph Raycroft of the Health Department: "We cannot state now just what danger Professor Ladenburg and Mr. Van Voorhis...