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1931 Standstill Agreement of 1931 allows Germany a moratorium on war debts through the 1930's. A pact between the London, New York, and German branches of the Warburg and Schroder Houses. 1931 Bank for International Settlements founded. The records are maintained at the Hoover Institution today. 1931 Fluoride in drinking water is found to be the cause of brown teeth—now known as dental fluoro- sis. 1931 H.Trendley Dean of the U.S. Public Health Service initiates studies on fluorides under the juris- diction of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon (founder of Alcoa aluminum, who is one of the main sup- pliers of toxic sodium fluoride as a by-product of aluminum manufacture) publishes a purposely skewed study showing that, at 1 ppm, fluoride results in the reduction of tooth decay. 1931 Bechtel consortium build the Bonneville Dam, San Francisco Bridge, and Hoover Dam between 1931 and 1936. Friend of Warren is John McCone, a steel saleman. Hoover (Boulder) Dam is financed by the Schroder-Rockefeller Group. Henry Schroder placed on Bechtel board as chairman of finance committee. Huge government contracts for Bechtel follow this appointment. 1931 W.Averall Harriman, son of E.H.Harriman, merges his banking house with Brown Brothers to form Brown Brothers Harriman. In 1933, BBH would back the expansion of the CBS television net- work. 1931 Cornelius Rhoads, a North American pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investi- gations in Puerto Rico, carries out an experiment on Puerto Ricans deliberately infecting them with can- cer. Thirteen die. In a letter leaked to the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Rhoads wrote, “the Puerto Ricans (sic) are lazy and degenerate. What the island needs is something to exterminate the entire popu- lation. I have done my best to further the extermination.” The president of the PRNP brings the case to the press, and a legal investigation is initiated. The prosecutor exonerates Rhoads, calling him “a men- tally ill person or a man with few scruples.” Rhoads goes on in later years to direct the establishment of U.S. Army chemical warfare labs in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, for which he was awarded the 1932 The U.S. Public Health Service initiates a study in Tuskegee, Alabama, where black men are given syphilis. Four hundred men were unwittingly given the disease. No medical care was offered. The study ended when it was discovered in 1972, after 40 years. The office supervising this study was the predecessor of the Center for Disease Control u unit now in in charge of the AIDS program. 1932 Research (Young) indicates that neuritis is commonly precipitated following vaccination with anti-tetanus, anti- “Pneumococcal, and anti- “meningitis s serums. 1932 Third International Congress of Eugenics held in New York. Dr. Theodore Russell Robie of the Essex County Mental Hygiene Clinic in New Jersey presents “Selective Sterilization for Race Culture,” 354 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1931 Japan begins a 15 year reign of totalitarianism by invading China. 1931 Wilhelm Reich publishes “The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality.” 1931 Business Week raises issue of AMA censoring of drug ad copy. 1931 1.G. Farben and Alcoa Aluminum sign Alig Agreement pooling patents. 1931 1.G. Farben complex begins large contributions to fund Nazi cause. 1931 Roosevelt endorses polio “immune serum,” precursor to vaccines in 1950's. 1932 United States economy begins to show signs of recovery. 1932 German Kurt Lewin becomes director of the Tavistock Institute in London. 1932 Diphtheria vaccines injure 171 and kill 1 in Charolles, France. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation