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Died. León Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations...
...main questions at the meeting was that concerning the probation rules governing Yale-Harvard House contests. In order to deal with this matter, Todd appointed as co-members of a sub-committee, James T. Dennison '34, of Eliot House, and Richard G. Fletcher, Jr. '35, of Leverett House...
...decided to appoint a sub-committee, which would make all arrangements for this institute, choosing a suitable time and place and securing speakers, thoroughly familiar with the NRA program from its inception, so that the professors may hear informative, educational and authoritative talks on the subject. Thus they would be presented with an authentic interpretation of the program for their own benefit and for the benefit of their students...
Governor Lehman of New York took to his bed with a sharp pain in his side late last week-sub-acute appendicitis-but not before he had helped rid his State of an acute pain in the pocket book. All week in his Manhattan apartment he had continued conferences between the city's bankers, officials of the New York Stock Exchange and prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. The last, counseled by orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, persisted stubbornly in his proposal to pile a city tax on top of the Federal and State taxes on stock transfers...
...yards, payment for which will come out of the $238,000,000 public works fund allocated to the Navy (TIME, Aug. 14). He also named some of the new craft as follows: Vincennes (heavy cruiser), Brooklyn, Savannah, Nashville, Philadelphia (light cruisers), Yorktown, Enterprise (aircraft carriers), Porpoise, Pike, Shark, Tarpon (sub-marines...