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Thus spoke President Hoover last week, leaving no doubt that he would promptly approve the request of Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler for retirement from the Marine Corps Oct. 1. General Butler will live in Philadelphia, is said to be planning to run for the Senate...
...argued that the Federal commission had no legal authority to up freight rates on a mere showing of financial emergency and that, in addition, the roads had offered no evidence that such an increase would improve their revenues and credit. The I. C. C. postponed consideration of this joint request...
...stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo- Dr. William James...
...been married since 1912, has two other children); in Montreal. The child is the first to be born to a Governor-General of Canada since the present Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava gave birth to a son in 1875. From George V came a request that he might be the boy's godfather...
...November President Hoover will appear before Congress to request a change in the Prohibition...