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...Francis Everett Townsend but shrewd, dynamic Co-Founder and National Secretary Robert Earl Clements is the man who has marshaled the Townsend hordes into a potent and profitable political army. In Washington last week, day after he was summoned to appear before the House investigating committee set up to destroy the Townsend threat (TIME, March 2), this 41-year-old onetime Long Beach, Calif, real estate broker announced his resignation from Old Age Revolving Pensions. His stated reason: "Differences with Dr. Townsend over fundamental policies...
Many syphilologists give their patients bichloride of mercury to drink, carefully watching that the poison does not destroy the stomach, intestines or kidneys. Such syphilologists believe that potable mercury destroys spirochetes more effectively than mercury injections. Reasoning by analogy, they ask pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
Although most of their work consisted of relaying river heights and similar messages, the Crimson radio men also sent out the much disputed order to grocers telling them to destroy all perishable stock which might possibly spread the dread typhus germ...
...this new degree bears such a "very marked resemblance to Sam Mather's" of 1701, why completely destroy the effect at the very end? I don't propose that the President be requested to sign himself "Jacobus" if he doesn't want to, but wouldn't the dignity of the diploma be enhanced considerably by the benefit of at least the first name of the chief representative of the illustrious institutions that grants...
...belong to any of these nationalistic societies. My only affiliations are with my local Grange for purely social reasons. Nor am I of these people who believe Communists lurk behind every bush waiting to destroy the government...