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...Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty, wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in 1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become the centre of an international incident...
...zone." A consul of His Britannic Majesty called officially upon the 64-year-old country doctor. From distant Washington, Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, prodded in the rear by Japanese diplomats, frantically telephoned Dr. Moeur. The whole trouble was started by Dr. Moeur's old patients down in Salt River Valley...
...Vagabond idled over the rail of bridge, concealed from the vulgar gaze by the gathering dusk and by the bulky base of the great salt-shaker pillar. The subway trains, momentarily elevated, flashed by, each square of light framing the back of a head, a neck and a pair of shoulders. Twelve minutes from the South Station, said the Rollo Book, in the misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty...
...Roscoe Turner were his pilots. Next day he was in Boston, the following day in Atlantic City where he conferred with other benevolent antlered friends. Such was only the beginning of a 10,000-mile air tour that will take him to Asheville, Dallas, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles...
Last week dozens of big and little corporations selling biscuits, brake shoes, dynamos, table salt, telephones, bottle glass, gum and gas machines reported their profits and losses for the first half of 1934. A majority had done better in the second quarter than in the first. Of 19 big corporations only four, A. T. & T., Wrigley. National Biscuit, Corn Products, earned less than they had in the first six months of 1933. Five others jumped into the black, against losses last year: four already in the black doubled or nearly doubled their earnings; the rest showed moderate improvement...