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Introduced by Bruce Hopper '17, associate professor of Government, who attended Montana University with him, the veteran newspaperman spoke to a near capacity crowd in Harvard 1 and conducted a short forum afterwards. He began by attacking isolationism, likening it to a refusal to acknowledge the existence of small pox next door. "The present decay of world order amounts to ruination without representation," he said, citing the failure of diplomacy, the League, and armaments to solve international disputes...
...ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything the color of earthquakes or cyclones or black small pox and consequently could not send news of our splendid economic conditions...
...last week: NYA begins to think public works relief more important than academic relief; employers scouting schools and colleges have begun to ask for NYA students. But the big news of last week's birthday was that the child seemed virtually past danger from economic undernourishment or political pox...
Confining himself largely to the problems of Massachusetts, Dr. Russell reported that smallpox, once dreaded above all diseases, has now been beaten to a standstill. Thanks to universal application of the Jenner vaccine, introduced in 1800, the disease has very nearly disappeared from the State, the last small pox death occurring over five years...
...Institute asks is that its patients bring a disease on which the staff is currently working to inform the medical world. Patients currently under treatment are suffering from pernicious blood diseases, nephritis, advanced heart failure, rheumatic fever, chicken pox, measles, acute respiratory ailments. The hospital's standing invitation reads: "Suitable patients may be referred to the hospital by physicians and others who are interested. . .". An ambulance will be sent when necessary." But not many doctors want to surrender their patients to the Rockefeller Institute Hospital. Sometimes an East Side drunk wanders in. Sometimes a motor car strikes a pedestrian...