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...Franklin Roosevelt had his Louis McHenry Howe to steer him through the intricacies of campaign politics, his Raymond Moley to chart its intellectual strategy. Researcher Taft is neither a Howe nor a Moley to Nominee Landon. Still principally responsible for the character of the Landon campaign is that Kansas City Star team, Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes, who put the Kansas Governor into the running originally and now pack the greatest influence with him. Theirs will be whatever fame or blame accrues to the G. O. P.'s strategy on Nov. 3. Yet smart newshawks who compared the tone...
...long, without my asking 'Will you abide with me or sing with me?' they are doing a shuffle and a-humming, repeating just that phrase. Soon they're surprised I got nothing to sell. So I sell them, for nothing, the Negro spirituals. I got no chart to show, no list of converts, no promise of future missions." But Missionary Rodeheaver estimated he had reached 10,000 people. He would, he said, have brought half a dozen Congo boys to U. S. for musical training had not the Belgian authorities declined to let them leave...
...with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer's surveyors was a new picture of the mighty chasm that was carved in what is now ocean bottom by the Hudson River...
...action begins in Dr. DeLee's lecture room. A nurse enters, asks, "Are you ready, doctor? Dr. [Morris Edward] Davis thinks there may be a forceps case in the birth room." Dr. DeLee reads the mother's hospital chart, looks up, announces, "Forceps may really be needed. . . . Gentlemen, this is a forceps case. Let us proceed to the amphitheatre." There a woman, asleep under ether, is ready for delivery. Dr. DeLee surveys her, murmurs, "Hm! Looks like a nine-pounder." Swiftly he nicks the woman's vulva so that it will spread and prevent the birth from...
Last week in the current issue of his monthly business review, Analyst Ayres undertook to destroy the common faith in common stocks as a hedge against inflation. With the aid of a chart showing the course of stock prices in terms of the cost of living, he reviewed the record in France, Germany and the U. S. during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped...