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Ordinary x-ray pictures, taken after the patient has eaten a paste of barium sulphate, show only the outline of the stomach. A method of outlining all the rugae occurred to a few roentgenologists. notably to Dr. Aubrey Otis Hampton, 34, a sharp-nosed Texan who went to Boston to practice medicine. Last week he explained the method to other fellows of the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) who crowded his lecture in Boston...
...World's Greatest Newsmagazine) would like to know that the U. S. Government succumbed first ten or eleven years ago when the Treasury became an account on the books of (to my way of thinking) advertising's No. 1 salesman, Albert Davis Lasker, dynamic Texan...
Ever since he thus addressed the American Bankers Association last summer, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones has been hammering away at the idea that commercial banks must loosen up on industrial credit to finance recovery. By way of example this big breezy Texan scattered hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal loans up and down the country. If commercial bankers refused to follow his pace, he threatened again & again to put the RFC directly into the commercial banking field and take away the business of private sluggards...
Late one afternoon, Chesley W. Jurney, a Texan who, after a generation of service as secretary to Democratic Senators and Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William...
...lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana and take a post-graduate course...