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Both Reader Hallam and TIME are right. When broadcasting, Poet Millay reads her poems, especially her children's verse, in a childlike treble. But just as often her voice varies with her mood to tragic huskiness. Sometimes her throat plays unfortunate tricks. Last fortnight in Detroit, where she gave a reading, Miss Millay was repeatedly interrupted by coughing in the audience. Each time she would pause, roundly upbraid the coughers. Toward the end of her reading Miss Millay herself was seized by a fit of coughing, to the undisguised glee of her audience...
Twenty-four hours later, the Government was at Mr. Mellon's throat once more. The Treasury filed suit against Union Trust itself to recover $218,333 in back taxes from the bank for 1930. plus a 50% penalty. Union Trust was also accused of "wash sales" of stock to its affiliated savings bank to avoid taxes. To those who felt the New Deal was deliberately persecuting old Mr. Mellon for political purposes, it was highly significant that Union Trust should be the first institution of its kind ever to be charged with tax evasion fraud...
...from Grand Army Maneuvers with Sergeant Honda out in front in the police pilot car. Since any street down which His Majesty is to ride must first be swept, purified and sanded, to make a wrong turn might seem impossible. Suddenly Sergeant Honda's heart was in his throat, his eyes bulged and sweat poured from his forehead. His pilot car had made a wrong turn. He was leading the Divine Emperor down a street unswept, unsanded, and unguarded! As horrified courtiers later reported, "'The surprised spectators were not even fittingly garbed...
...moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
Hope of conquering infantile paralysis first arose in 1910 when Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research discovered the virus which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...