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...Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx. When Miss Freistater applied for a teaching job in 1931, New York City examiners put her on the scales, found she weighed 182 Ib. Normal weight for a woman of Miss Freistater's 5 ft., 2 in. is 120 Ib. The examiners split the difference, gave her six months to train down to 150. The fretful life of a substitute teacher brought her down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent job, she appealed to the New York State Commissioner of Education...
Suddenly the top of the bag pimpled, popped. An instant later the whole crown split open, and 350,000 cu. ft. of helium roared out. An Army sergeant on the gondola understood the crisis first, frantically yelled, "Run! Run! She's busted!" Before any of the 20 men under the bag could do so, they were flattened by nearly three acres of billowing, stifling cloth...
...Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried and convicted for libeling the Army, Zola fled to England. By then I'affaire Dreyfus had aroused world interest, caused a national scandal which split all France into opposing camps, Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. After four years of solitary confinement and torture, Captain Dreyfus, white-haired at 39, was brought back from Devil's Island, tried again, re-convicted. Pardoned by the President in 1900, he was completely vindicated in 1906, given the rank...
...would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners as the U. S. is ever likely to behold...
...split the Court denied the right of holders of U. S. obligations to force the Government to keep its promise to pay them in 100? gold dollars. The Court's reasons: Those who sued had not actually proved a loss and to pay them in 100? dollars ($1.69 in 59? dollars) would result in their "unjustified enrichment." This apparently left the door open for suits by those who could prove a real loss; left the Treasury with an immense contingent liability on the $10,000,000,000 of Federal gold-clause bonds outstanding...