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...want both personally as one holding Dr. Ewing in very high regard, and as Director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to thank you most sincerely for the very intelligent, succinct, accurate and safe publicity which you have given to the fight against cancer in your recent issue of TIME. I know of no single item of voluntary publicity appearing in a periodical that has made quite such a definite appeal to me. The question is such a difficult one and requires so much repetition of facts in order to educate the public that the service which...
...Thank you for your reference to the 37½% dividend paid to my creditors. Not a bad snowing for a "fraudulent" bankruptcy. Much better in fact than the usual returns from honest (?!) bankrupts. In dollars and cents, 37½% is equal to about $1,500,000. If you add to it the $1,750,000 absorbed by referees, receivers, trustees, auditors, experts, court fees, lawyer fees, plus the $1,500,000 of "depreciation" of assets (great alibi that!), plus $2,000,000 of so-called "unearned" profits paid by me to investors before bankruptcy, and never recovered, the staggering figure...
General Secretary Arthur James ("Emperor") Cook of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, famed unionist leader ("Thank God for Moscow!"), went to the hospital because of pains in his right leg which he had injured during his 21 years underground in the mines and hurt again when in 1926 he scuffled with non-unionists. Forthwith, surgeons amputated the leg above the knee...
...about eight more which have a university aspect and a university standard for a part of their activities." A true university, said he, is not a group of professional schools, but a "power house of the mind." Asked to name his Eight, he chuckled: "Oh, no! no! No, thank you! There is no way you can find...