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...experimentation." The third group made its living on a "learning machine." That, explained Dr. Lorge, is an elaborate contrivance "which subjects simultaneously a group of 13 to a learning situation in which stimuli are presented and each subject makes responses." A "unit" of right responses wins a nickel. A wrong answer may bring a fine...
...London two German women, one of whom had told Swiss and Scotland Yard investigators that they were "working without pay for Dr. Wesemann." died suddenly last week. Said the Paddington police doctor, "Poison." Said Swiss Prosecutor Ganz, "Something must be very wrong. When I saw those two women they were well and happy. I shall be surprised if it is found they committed suicide...
...young woman named Patricia Maguire who lived in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and worked as a secretary on the Chicago Herald & Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday, at every change in her condition...
...time the Secretary's visit was over he had been made thoroughly conscious of militant pacifism as practiced by Philadelphia Quakers. When he arrived at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel to speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE FIRMS. When, in Reyburn Plaza, Mr. Dern made a brief speech and played at aiming a 3-in. anti-aircraft gun, Quakers distributed anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter...
...long as American investors know that there has been something wrong with the management and control of the railroads, so long as they know that their money has been used for improper purposes, so long as they feel that the facts have been kept from them . . . and so long as they feel that nothing substantial has been done to prevent the return of the railroads to men of the same type as those who have mishandled the roads in the past, just so long is the confidence of the American investor going to remain impaired. The way to restore confidence...