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...doctors. Due to Abraham Flexner's book and its effect on public opinion, 40 states will not license to practice medicine the graduates of medical schools on the A. M. A.'s blacklist. When heretical Dr. Zook had finished, he was neatly reprimanded by brisk little Biologist Alphonse Mary Schwitalla, S. J., dean of St. Louis University's medical school, who pointed out that the matter was in better hands when it was divided, as at present, between the A. M. A. and the state medical boards...
...editors chose a casual way of commenting on the parallel. From a letter from young Randolph Churchill advising them not to "be afraid of being accused of copying the big things in TIME," a footnote was laconically dropped: "This is a newsmagazine published in the United States. . . ." "Accurate, Brisk, Complete," Cavalcade regretted that its first issue was caught between two reigns, thus requiring an eight page take-out on the death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron is not only Cavalcade's editor but half its staff. The other half is Publisher William James Brittain...
...squash courts, garage with a Cadillac and two Oldsmobiles. Son Crocker also goes in for civic virtue, helped establish the San Francisco Museum of Art, for a while helped run Californians, Inc., booster organization. He was largely responsible for the First National merger, engineering the deal after a few brisk conferences while his father was in Europe...
Imperialist Woodhead, Thus every page of Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead's memoirs carries the brisk imprint of the Imperialist, the white man of business who finds the Chinese "anti-foreign," and has a hankering sympathy for the Japanese because today they are a people with the virility and strength the White Race once showed in bursting into China, and establishing itself with special superior status in the "treaty ports." Not only does Editor Woodhead take many illustrious Chinese to task, but he relates a wealth of anecdotes. Of the humble Chinese family whose robber son was being strangled slowly...
...Daniel Alfred ("Call Me Dan") Poling is world president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound...