Kenney warns Americans on air power and world threat
General George C. Kenney, leader of the Strategic Air Command, urged warnings on national defense at a Washington Women’s Patriotic conference. He warned that a future attacker could strike via air with atomic weapons, outlined the need for long range bombers and fighters, and asserted air power as peace power while stressing the taxpayer burden to fund readiness.
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Women’s Patriotic Conference
Washington, D. C
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Los Angeles
Washington
Roosevelt offspring in business draws sharp historic questions
Westbrook Pegler argues that Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family, especially Jimmy and Elliott, engaged in controversial business dealings. He cites the National Grain Yeast case, Treasury probes, and alleged ethics lapses. The piece accuses the Roosevelt administration of insufficient congressional scrutiny and public accountability.
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Washington
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Roosevel
State Department
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National Grain Yeast Corporation of
Belleville
Morgenthau
Frank J. Hale
Coolidge
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
United States Attorney General
Hale
Treasury
Pilinti
Ground for Pioneer hall to be broken at Brackenridge park
From the files for February 4, 1937: ground for Pioneer hall will be broken at Brackenridge park on Saturday. Earlier items note the Chinese New Year observed by San Antonio’s Chinese colony and preparations at Brackenridge park golf course for spring pruning. also mentions of squirrels storing golf balls and other archival tidbits from 1927 and 1887.
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Brackenridge Park
San Antonio
Murray’ Brooks
Penicillin and sulfonamide impact on pneumonia and scarlet fever
The article notes that before antibiotics pneumonia was treated with supportive care, but sulfonamides and penicillin directly fight the disease, speeding recovery. Serums helped but to a lesser extent. Penicillin also aids scarlet fever and streptococcal throat infections, eliminating the germ quickly with six days of treatment and preventing complications, though measles remains unaltered by these drugs.
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Tarasles
Preventive vaccines and serums curb whooping cough and diphtheria
Dr H N Bundesen urges prevention through gamma globulin for recently exposed children and early whooping cough vaccination at three to six months. Hyperimmune serum helps those already infected. diphtheria toxoid by 8 to 9 months could nearly eradicate the disease. The San Antonio Light notes privacy and AP rights.
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