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...hobnailed dictator but a silky Jewish intellectual of the Leon Trotsky type is Socialist French Premier Léon Blum. Smart Paris wiseacres guessed last week that Blum's shock at the killing of Nava, chine caused him to remonstrate by telegraph with Joseph Stalin, perhaps accounted for the unexpected action...
...mine's open terrace workings, from which ore is grabbed by twelve mechanical shovels, the dynamite had been laid. All was nearing readiness for the festive blowoff and the newshawks, standing at a safe distance, plugged their ears, braced themselves for the shock. At that moment an electric engine rolled up drawing two cars of black powder. Five workmen and a foreman started unloading...
...finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini died. Hospital authorities said: "Shock resulting from the stab wound . . . may have affected an already diseased heart and precipitated the cardiac attack." Police speedily exonerated Baritone Tibbett, who groaned: "Believe me, it was pretty tough. I feel terrible...
...Lester Osborne, in Science last week reported success. Ever since Dr. Carl Roller, an Austrian who now practises ophthalmology in Manhattan, discovered in 1884 that cocaine deadens sensation long enough for a minor operation, doctors worried because i) cocaine may start a bad narcotic habit, 2) cause a dangerous shock to the system. Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously, or 2) the drug quickly diffuses into the blood stream and loses its local anesthetic effect. To overcome...
...already in an official state of shock over the five crashes of the past month. WAE's second capped the climax. Pilot Lewis, too hurt to be questioned at length, was quoted by rescuers as mumbling: "There were three or four different voices on the radio and I couldn't make out any of them." This became the foundation for a number of bitter attacks on the Bureau of Air Commerce, operators of the radio beam system. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate Air Safety Committee, put the whole blame for recent crashes on the Bureau, demanded that...