Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A. D. 1933-1940 McGrath Publishing Company College Park, Maryland Reprint McGrath Publishing Company 1969 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-76119 Manufactured in the United States of America by Arno Press, Inc., New York Copyright, 1931, by The Macaulay Company THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO ALL CAUCASIANS IN THE GREAT REPUBLIC WHO CAN TRACE THEIR ANCESTRY BACK TEN GENERATIONS AND CONFIDENTLY ASSERT T

CHAPTER ONE Max Disher stood outside the Honky Tonk Club puffing a panatela and watching the crowds of white and black folk entering the cabaret. Max was tall, dapper and smooth coffee-brown. His negroid features had a slightly satanic cast and there was an insolent nonchalance about his carriage. He wore his hat rakishly and faultless evening clothes underneath his raccoon coat. He was young, he wasn't broke, but he was damnably blue. It was New Year's Eve, 1933, but there was no spirit of gaie