Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the Council issued Volume I, No. 1 of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. A compendium of scientific fact and fancy, the Journal offered no clear-cut conclusions on the cause & cure of alcoholism, left the lay reader with the sobering impression that a man staggering down the street is a dark scientific mystery...
...Empire reformer Philip Kerr edited the Round Table, a scholarly journal of political philosophy. As Lloyd George's secretary during World War I, he made two secret journeys to Switzerland to try to convince Austrians that further fighting was hopeless. As a peacemaker, he was with Lloyd George at Versailles, played a part in drafting the Versailles Treaty which he has since criticized. As Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for India in the MacDonald Cabinet, he sat in the endless Round-Table Conferences on the Indian Constitution, visited Delhi (where he was greeted with a sign reading "Lothian...
...colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...
Once he was nominated, business as a whole began lining up behind him with the same enthusiasm. The New York Stock Exchange, with utility stocks opening up three points, traded 660,000 shares in its first hour (previous day's total: 441,000). The New York Journal of Commerce exulted, "To the business community, the nomination of Mr. Willkie spells a new era," and predicted a more confident policy among purchasing agents. More significant was the way individual businessmen took fire. Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Edgar Monsanto Queeny asked his board of directors for a leave of absence...
LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS-Warren Angus Ferris-Rocky Mountain Bookshop, Salt Lake City ($3). At 19, Ferris joined a party of trappers that set out from St. Louis in February, 1830, and went to work north of Great Salt Lake. Ferris stayed alive for five winters. His journal, expanded when he got home to Buffalo and printed (1840-42) in the Western Literary Messenger, is one of the rarest and best documents of its kind; this is its first complete publication...