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...sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers, panic-stricken when one of them gets caught in a machine, storm the locked fire exits...
...seamen in the U. S. merchant marine. Until this year these men have had to pass no examinations in seamanship to get jobs. They merely submitted discharge papers from previous voyages. These papers were terse in the extreme, had no positive identification, were often sold by poverty-stricken sailors. In New York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect...
...viruses, particularly whether they are living or dead substances. Because he proved that viruses are lifeless molecules, the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week awarded Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute a $1.000 prize (see p. 39). Next day Dr. Stanley went to bed stricken by influenza...
...political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that dirty trick on Tsar Nicholas at Port Arthur. Why should not Dictator Stalin play it now in Russian revenge on Japan...
...Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Elsa Einstein, wife of Physicist Albert Einstein, was stricken with a heart attack...