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...warpath is no new path for the fighting doctor. During his 27 years of midwestern ministry he had trodden it often. He fought anti-evolution laws, was present at the Scopes trial. Once he asserted that Kansas City's syphilitic prostitutes, instead of being locked up in institutions, were being taken to the edge of town and turned loose. When the mayor challenged the charge, the police commissioners backed up Dr. Birkhead in public. The mayor, infuriated, brought his fist down on the table with a crash, exploded "By God!" and fell dead. Since then Dr. Birkhead...
...Nashville is rated A by the American Medical Association, and proud of it. It is the only U. S. school of medicine, dentistry and nursing which is exclusively for Negroes. One day, before the Civil War, one of the Meharry brothers was carting grist from the mill to his midwestern farm, when his wagon bogged down in the mud. A Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious farmer to his helper...
Director Mack had got cooperation that was worthwhile. Nash-Kelvinator shaved the price on 25,000 electric refrigerators to $52 each (retail price $105). A medicine cabinetmaker knocked down his wholesale price from $5 to $2. Another Midwestern manufacturer, after quoting rock bottom on about 30,000 bath tubs, confided: "But you can save $2 a tub if you buy the fittings from the same people we buy them from." So Mack bought "stripped" tubs, got fittings for them from the cheaper source. Savings: almost $60,000 on tubs alone. Said Director Mack, pleased as Punch...
With the experience of five Midwestern games behind them, Coach Earl Brown's Varsity squad is all set to meet its first Eastern Intercollegiate League competition when it faces the Big Red of Cornell tonight and the Big Green of Dartmouth tomorrow at 8:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...
After finishing with Cornell tonight, the squad will take on last year's Ivy League champions tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. Like the Crimson, the Indians have also met some Midwestern competition, eclipsing Wisconsin by twelve points, 59 to 47, and losing their only game to Toledo 59 to 46. St. John's fell by the large score of 74 to 55, Tufts lost 61 to 34, Vermont dropped a 47 to 18 contest, Fordham battled to a one point defeat, 53 to 52, and Seton Hall fell behind...