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...continue, would have private practitioners dispense the free drugs, assign patients to the free hospitals. By the nature of Dr. Parran's plans, thousands of the 167,000 doctors in this country would be obliged to take jobs with city, state or Federal medical agencies. They would thus abandon the legalized privileges of the professional man, the right to deal only with such clients as please them, the right to do whatever they think best for their clients...
...daughters of Israel can dissociate their feelings from their artistic judgment at a concert directed by a man whom they regard as an enemy of their race. To avoid painful experiences they will take the simple and logical course of staying away from these concerts. And if they abandon the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, it will perish. There is no musical enterprise of any kind whatever that can prosper in this great Jewish city without the support of the Jews...
...points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...
...summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
...part of Sally Hardcastle. They got more than they bargained for because it was soon apparent that Wendy Hiller possessed mimic assets rare among seasoned actresses. Like Katharine Cornell, she has the trick of inflecting her voice in several keys. She handles her body with the articulate abandon of Elisabeth Bergner, who looks good in shorts, too. The Hillers, well-to-do Manchester cotton people, were opposed to Wendy's going on the stage. But if Hollywood lets her sail back to England after Love on the Dole is over, Broadway will be much surprised...