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...intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...
...person. . . . Under you the practice has been maintained of letting the bands play not only for the President and every kind of official but for the balls, dinners, amusements, horse shows and every conceivable kind of private entertainment . . . furnishing free music to the very wealthy . . . thus taking from poverty-stricken civilian musicians a means of livelihood...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, master showman. Stricken with bronchial pneumonia, he had gone west to recover, planning to stage his Follies in Los Angeles during the Olympic Games. In Hollywood he had a relapse. After .his physicians had thought him out of danger his heart gave way, he gasped twice, died before his wife and daughter could get to him from a nearby cinema studio. His mother, dying in Chicago, was not told of his death...
...more persons are exposed to infantile paralysis than ever contract the disease. The germ is present in the noses and throats of many healthy individuals. During epidemics most adults and children in the stricken areas pick up germs, acquire immunity without developing symptoms of the disease. This immunity lasts a lifetime. Each epidemic immunizes thousands of children. Not until these thousands are grown and other thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last...
...Berlin the spirit of Germany's younger generation gave Author Hergesheimer pause. From their severe, rather poverty-stricken lives "the customary optimism, the romantic confidence, of youth, were absent. . . ." Most characteristic humor of the town was "a faintly bitter but undisturbed acceptance, of all, all, the realities of existence." To make the realities of existence less onerous for some of them Author Hergesheimer did his best. He took supper at the Swedish Pavilion "with a girl I found swimming at the Freibad," treated her to wild strawberries, lake trout, caviar. He took her home, a 40-minute taxicab ride, left...