Scientific meet spotlights future and cures across nation
At Atlantic City meetings of science and medicine experts, predictions include flying boats and week long world cruises within five years, plus debates on population trends, cancer heredity, and a push for public syphilis control. Research spans archaeology to jazz origins and new uses for electricity and aviation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pacific
Ivor Sikorsky
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Atlantic City
Sikorsky
Long Island Sound
Europe
Chicago
Frederick Osborn
American Eugenic Society
Washington, D. C
S. W. Becker
Rush Medical School
Maude Slye
Courthouse Parade and Oddities Parade Through Marion Eyes
Readable vignettes depict a courthouse Christmas tree removal after Christmas, humor about gum and peanuts replacing smoking, a tale of a courtroom sentence years past, a man with a crystal radio at the county home, and a disabled woman crafting paper flowers, all highlighting small town life in Marion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Elmer Seevell
Elmer
Gene Isham
Marion
Milo P. Smith
Morris
Conscription of Women Demanded in Roumania
The National Council of Women petitions parliament to require all able bodied Roumanian women to serve in war. The plan argues compulsory service would double army strength by freeing men for frontline roles, turning Roumania into a vast permanent military camp in wartime.
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Bucharest
INS
National Council of Women
Roumania
Prohibition failed to fix underlying social tension says editor
A 1987 column argues negative laws like prohibition fail to replace what they remove and stresses need for patience sympathy and understanding between generations. It notes youth reason with parents and peers and warns against rigid dogma. The piece ends with a railroad detail about ebony ties on a Mexican line.
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Ray M. Immel
University of Southern California
National Association of Teachers of Speech
St. Louis
Immel
Egypt
Keith C. Selle
University of Chicago
Oriental Institute
Medinet Habu
Luxor
Cincinnati
Carl W. Blegen
University of Cincinnati
Troy
Homer
Bernice M. King
Minnesota
American Anthropological Association
American Folk Lore Society
Society For American Archaeology
Felix Berstein
New York University
D. H. Wenrigh
University of Pennsylvania
Wenrigh
United States Department of Agriculture
Edward Spencer Cowles
New York City
R. A. McFarland
Columbia University
McFarland
Assell
Okinow
Peta
Olele
Mato
Jade
Libby
Vicks
Bull Durham
OLD North State Tobacco
Hill
Sempray Jovenay
Armand's Rouge
Angelus
Castile
Sogt Watkins
Aneay Ae
Maxwell House Coffee
KOTEX
Skrip
Fletcher
Mead
Brewer's Yeast
Coo L
Pinaud
Bellans
Scott
Unguentine
Sor Tse
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