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...Scotland, is 85 years old, works from 12 to 16 hours a day, operates the Dollar Line, largest privately owned U. S. fleet? Famed too is Amadeo Peter Giannini, though his banking reputation has not invariably included the facts that he is a Papal Knight, that he suffers from chronic neuritis, that he does not approve of private offices. But with Dollar, with Giannini, the list of San Francisco financiers is only begun...
...president of the New York Academy of Medicine and hence a quasi-national personage, Dr. John Augustus Hartwell last week assumed boldness and denounced the profession's chronic evil- fee-splitting. The practice of medicine has become so complex that the general practitioner must usually call in a specialist for many services which formerly he did himself. The patient pays two fees, usually (in Manhattan and other large communities) $10 to the family doctor, $35 to the specialist. And usually the specialist secretly rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting...
...sixth time in a twelvemonth, Japanese were perturbed, last week, at the recurrence of an awful but now chronic scandal: personal appeal by a mere subject to the Divine Emperor...
Died. Dr. C. E. Hemingway, 67, of Oak Park, Ill.; father of famed expatriate author Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), chronic diabetic; by suicide; in Oak Park...
Lest lapses should be chronic Mayhap this futile little rime...