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Last week from Canada issued more good news for diabetics. From the duodenal membranes of rabbits, dogs, hogs and cattle they had isolated a new hormone. Fed in powder form or injected into patients with diabetes, it reduced blood sugar to normal. Quietly Dean Archibald Bruce Macallum and Associate Professor of Physiology Norman B. Laughton of the University of Western Ontario Medical School made a preliminary report of their discovery to the Royal Society of England. As a diabetes medicine it may prove as effective as the insulin Toronto University's Drs. Banting & Best discovered...
Decision to take this radical step was not Manager Farley's. He had called a "pep meeting" for Roosevelt leaders. Bruce Kremer and Senator Wheeler, both of Montana, began to urge a change in the rules to help their candidate. Senator Huey Long, Louisiana's "Kingfish," delivered a loud yawp for the same thing, swung the meeting completely off its balance. Josephus Daniels of North Carolina and Senator Hull of Tennessee chimed in. Manager Farley lost control of the meeting and the Roosevelt movement passed momentarily into the little hands of little men from the South and West. The meeting...
...studio bothered to teach him. But that in no way diminishes the value of this picture. Cagney always does his best sparring against his leading ladies and in this picture he has two of them to threaten. He hits neither and only kicks the one who deserves it (Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana...
...George Bruce Cortelyou, onetime (1907-09) Secretary of the Treasury and president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York was elected president of National Electric Light Association. By past procedure the election would have gone to Marshall Emmett Sampsell, first vice president and head of Insull's Central Illinois Public Service Co. The action was taken to mean that the rift caused when the Association's big eastern members resigned last year is completely healed. Cause of it was the feeling that N. E. L. A. was dominated by the Insull group, went...
Engaged. John Gilbert, film actor; and Virginia Bruce, his leading lady in Downstairs (now in production). Cinemactor Gilbert may not wed until his divorce from his third wife, Ina Claire, becomes final...