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...fact that he had argued similarly at Republican gatherings for years seemed to win him the respect of the crowd. After Dr. Butler came the turn of Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Obedient to his President, he infuriated his Wet colleagues in the New York delegation by forcefully, with downward jabs of his fists, demanding acceptance of the Administration's plank...
Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...
...Luby J. ("Jack") Doty, Memphis city employe, recovered consciousness last year, he found that the motor car in which he was going fishing had overturned, exploded, burned two companions to death, seared his back and legs. Piped he: "I'm not a dead soldier." Doctors placed him face downward in a sheet steel oven kept at 103° F. to keep his raw back from chilling (TIME, March 28). Where the seared flesh cleared up, doctors grafted skin. Last week indomitable Jack Doty sat on his front porch, virtually healed, after 412 days in the oven...
...Bureau of Census last week observed that the mortality rate has declined in 85 large cities below the rate of last year-from 135 per 10,000 to 124 per 10,000. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, when he noted this downward drift in the statistics last year, indicated to President Hoover that it was due to frugality and temperance in Depression...
...Governors assembled in the long narrow board room opening upon the grimy interior court of the Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...