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...incident in Professor Abbott's career will round out the picture. Some three years ago, the Professor landed in Finland only to discover that he was something of a national figure. He was feted; he was invited to important function; his picture was printed in the papers. Professor Abbott has always been fond of Finland
...unprecedented kudos; his melancholy bray assaults us on the radio, his face looks out of a hundred advertisements, his every discretion and impertinence is read by all who have letters, and related to all who have not. On every metropolitan daily we support a corps of gossips whose function it is to invade the offices, the houses, the motor cars, the jail cells of the prominent and of the unvirtuous, and to record all for the delectation of the multitude. For one reader of the small boxes on Bitler's foreign policy and the mechanics of his dispensation there...
Consumers to Arms-The price-fixing squabble grew so noisy that the din passed beyond conference-room walls. Percy Straus's sidelong argument that retail selling should be a balanced function which, when efficiently performed, passes along price benefits to the consumer, reached the ears of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Committee. She perked up her ears and flatly denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss...
Despite the ever-quickening strides of science along the various frontiers of modern medicine, it will be the teaching rather than the research function, which will have to be reinforced and elaborated to meet the pace of modern life. A new frontier for medical advancement has been opened in America; the social and economic field. The depression has pointed out the vast gap between the poor farmer's purse and the metropolitan specialist's price for advice or operation. Scientific treatment in developing from the nightmare practices of early medicine, has also become expensive...
...American Mercury last-year, now announces his resignation from its editorship. No one will blame him for his unwillingness to be the last seaman on board a vessel which is patently enreefed, but many will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime from which they came; and those who liked to see them...