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First class mail for Europe from the Atlantic coast was suspended during the last three days of June and no parcel post was shipped over the same routes for the last week of the month. The reason for the cessation of mail service was that the Post Office Department does...
British dissatisfaction with the treatment of British subjects at Ellis Island boiled up, not for the first time, in the House of Commons, when Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was questioned by several members. Among the specific charges made against the administration of Ellis Island were:
Dr. Flexner is an enthusiastic convert to the value of insulin, and declares there have been no failures in its beneficial effects. A committee of nine distinguished physicians, appointed by Dr. Banting, discoverer of the specific, and including Drs. Campbell and Fletcher, Toronto; Joslin and Fitz, Boston; Wilder, Rochester, Minn...
The Metropolitan Museum, charged with buying " the most fantastically faked fakes that ever the brain of faker faked," gives proof of good faith in the cordiality with which its president, Mr. Robert De Forest, disclaims infallibility and encourages investigation of specific objects of suspected authenticity.
Dr. Wassermann's new serum (TiME, March 31) is not a method of immunization, like Dr. Dreyer's, but simply a blood test to determine the presence of active tuberculosis. Combined with a successful specific, it might cut the tuberculosis deathrate to the vanishing point.