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...European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty he had written "a letter which may alter world history!" London's arch-Conservative Morning Post dryly said: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is give to the proposal their urgent and sympathetic consideration...
There remained, however, one grave doubt about Dr. Stanley's work. Did his chemical treatment of viruses alter them? The Rockefeller staff had the answer to that. But they waited until last week when the summer meeting of the A. A. A. S. at Denver (see p. 40) again gave them a big, public stage...
...lawyers and accountants, specialists in saving their clients taxes, that often it is difficult to tell the difference "between tax avoidance which is proper and tax-evasion which is supposed to be immoral" until after a long legal battle. Rich men have split their personalities by setting up alter egos in the form of corporations and creating losses in some to balance profits in others. "These transactions," said he, "partake of the same unreal character as if a small taxpayer incorporated his household kitchen as a restaurant and deducted his expenses and losses from his taxable income because...
...since the be ginning of the New Deal. They had been the centre of one of the three or four great constitutional crises which the U. S. has known. They, especially in the last year, had broadened the interpretation of the Constitution in a way that may permanently alter the functions of the U. S. Government. Having at times opposed the otherwise undisputed master of U. S. politics, they had been bitterly assailed. One or more Justices may, like Mr. Van Devanter, retire and be replaced before the Court meets in October. But these particular nine old men were...
...clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment of the mental faculties." According to Dr. Alford's findings, the fact "that the remainder of the brain may complement, complete and intensify the functions of these basal left-side structures does not alter the fundamental conclusion. Another point is that we may have been searching all these years in the wrong spots for the anatomical changes of mental disease, such as epilepsy and similar disorders...