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...called The Forceps Operation. One of 16 films in which Dr. DeLee shows the various ways in which a baby may be born, The Forceps Operation was the most popular event at the A. M. A. convention. Some 5,000 physicians attended the screening, heard Dr. DeLee clear his throat, saw Dr. DeLee, who once wanted to be an actor, perform with no camera shyness...
Keynoting at Maine's Republican State Convention last month, the big, rugged, slow-spoken Oregon Senator declared:' "The most rapid improvement [in business] came after the Supreme Court invalidated the National Recovery Act and removed the governmental clutch from the throat of American business. ... In its effort to meet the agricultural problem, the New Deal has failed. . . . Needless, spendthrift addition to this crushing [national] debt is but little short of criminal." Last week it was widely noted that Senator Steiwer had voted for NRA. for AAA and the AAAmendments, had led the Senate fight against President Roosevelt...
Died. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, 68, creator of the famed fictional seriocomic seer "Mr. Dooley"; of cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution...
...family physician sent her back to a Syracuse nose & throat specialist who operated on the tonsils, was later obliged to call in a general practitioner to treat a "puzzling pleurisy" which Medical Student Newcomer soon developed. She recovered, was graduated and licensed to practice medicine, went to Paris for postgraduate study, returned to Manhattan "to establish and run semi-public clinics for the so-called white-collar classes." She learned enough about what patients think of doctors to publish an emotional book on the subject last week...
...hang herself. Having allowed herself too much rope, she did not try again, but went home to bed. Meantime Sparkenbroke died of angina pectoris in his family vault. Wise Husband George, though he found his wife's farewell note, saw and understood the rope-scars on her throat, let sleeping might-have-beens...