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...Billings' share was $100,000. Had Dr. Billings lived until his 79th birthday next April, he then would have received an "Homage Book," tribute of his onetime pupils. That project now is abandoned. At the time of his death Dr. Billings was carrying in his pocket a plan to organize Illinois physicians to work for the election of Judge Henry Homer to the governorship of Illinois...
Last week blatant, bellicose Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long reached a new pinnacle of power when Louisiana Democrats at their primary retired Senator Broussard. Long foe, and nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
Persia bought a modest $2,000,000 Navy last week (see p. 16). Germany let contracts for her third $20,000,000 "pocket battleship" (see p. 14). France began "war games" or "autumn maneuvers" around Châlons-sur-Marne to continue until Sept...
...various House Masters," are pretty palpably cooked up, a testimony to the broadminded generosity of the gentlemen who drew up the report. Others are of a more permanent and useful nature, though no better calculated to the purpose of taking a little hard-given money out of the pocket of the University for the benefit of the student...
...head, put a perky cigar in his mouth, and posed for a moment. Except for frock coat and saddle medicine bags, that was the way he rode into Mulvane 52 years ago, a year after its founding. Laughed he last week: "I had 45? in my pocket then." Now he has a big house in Mulvane, a wife and four children (the son is Dr. Hargus Gerard Shelly, 51, of Wichita), and a practice which still requires night calls...