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Many a doctor will tell you that his calling is a hard one, but at least he can say that he is his own man. He can determine the size and nature of his practice, fix the amount of his fees, take time off for a fishing trip whenever he can afford to (and the state of his patients permits). He dreads the phrases "state medicine," "group medicine," "collective medicine," as devilish harbingers of a day when he will be a mere salaried employe, taking the jobs and patients he is told...
...gathering itself for its greatest lethal swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...
...Representative Martin Dies, on a trail he has been snuffing up a long time, proposed legislation to outlaw both the Communist Party and the Bund, fix heavy penalties for membership, suggested the President create a council of home defense to coordinate the FBI, the Secret Service, Army and Navy Intelligence...
...Industries Board in Washington. Before them lay a schedule of lower prices which the Board had worked out. Judge Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel addressed Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Board. "May I ask," asked he, "by what authority the War Industries Board has undertaken to fix these prices...
Actually, the War Industries Board had no specific legislative authority to fix prices. The vagueness of its powers, in fact, broke the health of its first chairman (Cleveland Lathe Maker Frank Scott) and caused its second (Railroader Daniel Willard) to resign. Not until Woodrow Wilson put Bernard Mannes Baruch in charge and armed him with personal backing did the Board really function effectively. That was in March 1918-eleven months after the U. S. entered...