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...Roosevelt's order setting up the board, much was left to "the duty of employers and employes." If disputants defied the board through thick & thin, ultimate action was left to the President. What course he might then follow he did not indicate last week...
...cosmopolitan British force at Cheren was led, and its every move was planned, by a thin-faced, Mephistophelean-appearing figure, Lieut. General William Platt, 55. An old hand on Britain's practice field of war, the Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid d'Amm (Arabic for General Officer Commanding) of the Sudan.In two of those years, his dark hair went white. Raid d'Amm Platt, who always carries a fly-whisk instead of the usual stick, has been something of a heretic in his handling of native troops: he cannot...
...Said he: "I am of pure German descent. My family name is not Willkie but Willicke. My grandparents left Germany 90 years ago, and they did this in protest against tyranny, and in order to live as free people." When Nazis heard that, their patience, never very durable, wore thin and snapped...
...test works a good deal like skin-testing for allergy. The test material is colostrum-a thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections...
Boss of Reynolds Metals is chunky, thin-haired, alert Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of the founder of R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. He quit the tobacco business in 1912, puttered around for seven years before starting a company to make cigaret foil. Effervescent Richard Reynolds likes to compose poetry while shaving, is now writing a book "to keep sane." Often he lets his enthusiasm overtake his business acumen, once bought the white elephant Woolworth estate on Long Island. But Reynolds Metals blossomed. He revolutionized the packaging business, won prizes with Canada Dry and Hoffman Beverage labels, made Reynolds Metals tops...