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...refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked employes longer than code hours, paid them less than code wages. Both courts decided that the code's labor provisions...
Sixteen hundred select U. S. doctors who belong to the American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case...
Last week the National Academy of Sciences, most select of national scientific bodies, gathered in Washington to elect 14 new members, make Dean Frank Ratray Lillie of the University of Chicago's Division of Biological Sciences its new president, read some 50 papers. Newsworthy discussions...
...There are plenty of good men in the country when we are ready to select one. But now we have to agree on a fundamental set of principles in opposition to the New Deal, and work actively against its dangerous tendencies...
...years ago by the late Colonel William Boyce Thompson, copper tycoon, yachtsman, good friend of Roosevelt I. A Red Cross mission to Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died in 1930, he had given the Institute...